Quotes About Adversity

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

Sometimes the fruit is sweet, and sometimes it is sour. It is always fruit, and we eat it. So it is with the days we are given. Some are sweet, and some are not.

In Yeah Man (aka Yemen)

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower. And? Eddis prompted. Well, said Eugenides, it's a challenge.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength

being defenseless didn't preclude attack.

The path of least resistance has a lot going for it. The comfort zone isn't where you lose yourself. It's where you find yourself.

when you're at your most uncertain, face the world as if nothing can shake you.

This seems like one of the hardest things about being sick in the way you're sick: being sick makes you stressed. But being stressed makes you sicker.

It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.

Geez," I groan. I sure know how to make enemies—without even trying. People suck.

The Bird Wars

put it bluntly, Prince Ben, this blows," said Genie, who

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

Even though you can't control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There's never a moment you can't choose who you want to be.

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

It's like Fairy Godmother always says, aid Evie, hugging a purple pillow to her chest. Don't let the stepsisters get you down? said Mal. Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you'll find a light to shine your way through.

Melissa de la Cruz

I don't know. I live day to day, waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.

I learned a long time ago that tears don't save lives. All they do is blur your vision.

and whatever flaws and transgressions lay on the rocky road ahead of them, he knew that she was right; They could meet every obstacle and temptation in their path as long as they were by each other's side, in love and war, failure and victory, poverty and prosperity, until the curtain closed on their story.