Quotes About Adversity

I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow

Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off.

That wouldn't fit my right testicle

But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through.

Who can sleep when we've got Trish the fuckin' bulldozer with us?

However tall trouble is, man must make himself taller still, even if it means making stilts.

It may well be that all suffering, even the prickles in the canefields, are part of the glory of man

But man's mishaps have never made the sun shine any less bright.

With their women's bodies and children's eyes, my friends felt quite ready to get the better of existence

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Così era la vita, le cose capitano, e non sempre sono come devono capitare.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

His eyes were narrowed as he spoke, bitten a little with perplexity at the uselessness of being right against the world.

Challenges cultivate ingenuity

Destiny has many enemies...

YOU MIGHT NEED To divert a little but don't lose your path, stay true to yourself. SM

God knew the African woman was going to have a very, very hard life. That is why He gave her skin as tough as Mother Earth herself. He gave her that tough, timeless skin so that her woes would not be written all over her face, so that her face would not be a map to her torn and tattered heart.

I came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be. So many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once had once. I was not thus afflicted I saw.

I came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be. So many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once had loved. I was not thus afflicted I saw.

You may have just one life but there are million possible ways to live it.So don't let a failure shut you down. Always remember there are no losers, just tough fighters !!!

Do not allow the waves to throw you back, swim over them.