Quotes About Adversity

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

dont let the old break you; let the love make you

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fucked-up events.

He shakes his head and grimaces. "I need to get my own place, like, yesterday." "So why don't you?" He taps his head. "Brain injury. There are things I can't do." "Like what?" "Like remembering what the fuck it is I can't do." He opens the passenger door and throws himself down in the seat.

It occurs to me, just before I pass out, that maybe I was miserable before, but things were going too well for me to notice it.

Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.

If you have courage, strengthen it…if you have none, develop it. We'll need it all through this conflict and afterward.

Hazelnuts (filberts) Poor hazelnuts.

When life gives you a lemon . . . squeeze it, mix with 6 ounces of water, and drink twice daily." That folk wisdom

You can be born with bad cards. You don't need to have it all. But you have a choice and the power to craft your own destiny, your own path.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.

There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.

What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson.

What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there.