Quotes About Adversity

In fact, I would like to propose that central to understanding our lives is understanding how we deal with loss. I would like to propose in this book that the people we are and the lives that we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.

It's a trite saying now, been said so often, but it's true that the West was great for men and dogs but hell on women and horses.

I was a girl crying in the middle of a crowd, and nobody noticed. Maybe there was something awful about that, but there was something good, too. I would dry my own tears. I opened my eyes and kept on walking. ~Kit

The secret was to let the monster bearing down on you know that you had a path and you were sticking to it. The secret was to take your time.

I agree with New Age philosophy that everything happens for a reason. But not always for a good reason. A tornado is not especially interested in your self-actualization.

Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

a girl who was bullied by those closest to her until her determination set like concrete;

When our days are shadowed and leached of meaning, when circumstances shower us with mud, how can we be sure to re-emit lessons we absorb in the sunlight?

hawser in place.' Yet set against this image

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.

I'd never invested a lot of effort into my dreams. When daily survival took everything I had, flexibility was more practical than hope.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

This poem was adversity's love child.

Neither of you are afraid of anything, and that's not bravery; that's not knowing how bad things can be.

Hope could be a cruel bitch

que tenía delante. Tropezó y… cayó delante de un tanque que pasó por encima de ella.

Nadie puede salir indemne de tanto sufrimiento. —La cuestión es aprender a vivir con ello-

El terror anula a los seres humanos, y para poder sobrevivir saca los peores instintos.

Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.