Quotes About Adversity

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

The stronger the enemy, the more we must surpass ourselves

Et tes ennemis sont souvent de très bons professeurs.

Il faut toujours remercier ses ennemis. Sans eux, tu n'évoluerais pas.

Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?

she runs for her life because to slip up is to begin descending the slippery slope to giving in to failure, to inertia, to feeling sorry for herself about that moment in her life which still creeps to the front of her memory when she least expects it

this was her life now McStupid McFuckedUp McStuck McForever.

and she asked herself – how can I rise above my situation in order to raise my child as the sole wage-earner in a parenting situation of one?

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Sugar ain't spoiled, she just a little bruised, is all. Bruises can heal and fade away to nothing.

That's who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.

I knew that underwater problems had to be solved underwater.

Living is difficult but desirable," and the immune system works to keep us alive. I therefore use two major tools to change the body

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient—in America.

What to do when the whole world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

Unhappy the land that needs heroes.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Go make yourself a plan / And be a shining light. / Then make yourself a second plan, / For neither will come right.