Quotes About Adversity

in the middle of difficulty lies oportunity

You find a way to use them, Hattie, absolutely you do. But you don't give them so much focus that your family comes second... You look for an hour here and an hour there and you'll learn to make better use of your time than you did when you had days and days at your disposal." She squeezed Hattie's hand. "That is what God does, Hattie. Beauty for ashes. A change of heart instead of a change of circumstance.

You did what you had to do." He started,sure he had heard her wrong. "Oh,don't mistake me, I have no more liking for being staked out like a goat than would the next person. Still, it was a good plan, all things considered.

The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but some part of her, as she observed with a certain dazed detachment, was too pigheaded to give up. No,she would plod on likely to the ends of the earth, slipping and sliding, gasping and groaning, until either the river won or she did.Had she been inclined to wager, she would have bet on the river.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

You've had a tough crack at life, I'll give you that. But you don't got to let the bad thrown at you become the ugly you think you got to be.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

Still, I wouldn't have turned back if given the choice. At twenty-one, I felt I had gone to the bottom and floated up; I had the lightness of feeling there was nothing left to lose...

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Those times a person feels most afraid for their life? Those are the times you know you're alive.

Children had to know pain or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it. Trouble would come no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them, as it would, they'd be able to survive it. Teach your children well.

missing a crucial layer of skin other people had that allowed them to get through the day when he could not.

You had to let your children venture out in the world. You couldn't always find the Barbie shoe. Children had to know pain, or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it? Trouble would come, no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them—as it would—they'd be able to survive it. Teach your children well.

It turned out that horrifying things could happen to ordinary-looking people. Unimaginable things could happen in the most regular places.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Lo que importa no es cagarla, Yammara, óigame bien, lo que importa no es cagarla, sino saber remediar la cagada.

sometimes you make choices in life weither there good or bad just make the best of it

Para algo sí que sirve la licenciatura en Filología. Acabas conociendo un montón de sinónimos para definir una situación de mierda.

plataforma petrolífera Kobayashi Maru, situada

Tan buena que irás cantando y bailando hacia ella, como una cucaracha que se zambulle en un barreño de insecticida haciendo un doble tirabuzón.

Yo pensaba que me partiría una pierna o que terminaría rodando como una albóndiga que se escapa de la cazuela.