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Quotes About Adversity

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.
~ Leighton Meester
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course
~ Oprah Winfrey
Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
~ Andrew Solomon
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
~ Helen Keller
I love the role of Ripley.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
~ Peter Ustinov
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.
~ Cassandra Clare
You could make something amazing out of something awful.
~ Maureen Johnson
She went from feeling completely connected to him and swimming in the warm waters of happy hormones, to a cold, frightened feeling.
~ Maureen Johnson
WOKE THE NEXT MORNING, WHICH WAS A GOOD START. WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.
~ Maureen Johnson
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.
~ Maurice Sendak
To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down—that was what the world always tried to do.
~ Max Beerbohm
To love and be scorned—does Fate hold for us a greater inconvenience?
~ Max Beerbohm
I'll tell you, Champ, that a man has enough trouble in the world without asking for it.
~ Max Brand
Besides, most of the fellows that are ridin' long and sleepin' short, they have been drove out of society by the meanness of other men, and not because they wanted to go wrong.
~ Max Brand
I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together.
~ Max Brooks
I struggled so hard for a goal, without realizing that the goal is the struggle. It's what makes me stronger, smarter, and better. Growth doesn't come from a comfort zone, but from leaving it.
~ Max Brooks
if you can fight,fight,help each other, be prepared for anything.
~ Max Brooks
Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.
~ Max Brooks
Couldn't get back up because his parents never let him get knocked down?
~ Max Brooks
No sé si los grandes hombres son productos de tiempos difíciles, pero sé que pueden ser sus víctimas.
~ Max Brooks
it's not failure that matters, but how you recover from it.
~ Max Brooks