Quotes About Adversity

Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.

this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you'll find that it will pass and be completely forgotten —

There seldom seemed to be a house left with a roof, or with anything much beyond its four walls, and quite often they must lie staring up at the stars, which would stare back again, aloof and untroubled.

If you'd been a dog, They would have drowned you at birth.

String Fever was hanging by a thread anyway in the uncertain economy.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you've got.

You're the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

The best things in life don't come from taking the easy path, do they?

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

If I had grown up in a stable household with two well-adjusted and loving parents studied hard in school graduated with honors gone to college gotten a degree found a decent job met a wonderful girl fallen in love gotten married and lived happily ever after what in the hell would I have to write about?

Vendrán más años malos y nos harán más ciegos. Vendrán más años ciegos y nos harán más malos. Vendrán más años tristes y nos harán más fríos y nos harán más secos y nos harán más torvos.

Life can be infernally complex,' he said.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

The world is chock-full of monsters.

All those people who left me in my adverse times will come back, but this time not as friends but as fans

Successful people will always have more failure stories than success to tell.

For strife and struggle Man is born; But sheep and lambs Are always shorn.

A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.