Quotes About Adversity

This is what it feels like to be a piece of shit, thought Brrr; being pummeled on all sides by the world, forced forward, outward, into naked stink and light.

They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism.

Some people are born without much yeast in their dough.

Qualquer casualidade da luta é erro deles, não nosso. Nós não adotamos a violência, mas não negamos sua existência. Como podemos negá-la, se seus efeitos estão ao nosso redor?

It's been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis," she said, "those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Cuando los tiempos son un crisol, cuando la crisis está en el aire, aquellos que conservan su propia identidad son las víctimas.

When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It's the job to be done that's important, not who does it.

Quando os tempos são cruciais, quando o ar está cheio de crise, aqueles que são mais parecidos consigo mesmos são as vítimas.

Life is a challenge, Laura Maria Ciardi, You have to meet it.

Learning to suffer is called growing up. If we postponed all our sorrows, could we be capable of doing the work we're called to do?

Lost is not an address, it's not a permission to fail, it's not an excuse.

You could catalog the thousand ways people shrink from life, as if chance and change are by their nature toxic, disfiguring.

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

At certain points in our lives, it may not be possible to be happy, but it is possible to try to be happier—as happy as we can be, under the circumstances—and by doing so, fortify ourselves against adversity.

Frankl observed, "In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." *

Things often get harder before they get easier.

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography

it's a Secret of Adulthood: things often get harder before they get easier—but I'd started.

He that stumbles, and does not quite fall, gains a step.

We set out to be wrecked.

I choose to be happy, in spite of whatever drama that is going on in my life.

For this reason, it's all the more important to try to shape habits mindfully, so that when we fall back on them at times of stress, we're following activities that make our situation better, not worse.

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