Quotes About Adversity

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

moved away, it was often for the purpose of acquiring new tools that could not have been acquired in any other way. When

But how do you stop being afraid? He asked, and his hands made little jerks up and down. I guess you don't really ever stop, I said, But you just have to go on. Like Stanly. You just have to get up in the morning and see what happens. Even though it is hard.

Ralph really felt sorry for the boy, hampered as he was by his youth and his mother.

We can't always do what we want in life, answered her father, so we do the best we can.

The process of finding oneself in the face of invisibility, silence, and stereotypes is not an easy one.

Everyone has a supremely low moment somewhere along the AT, usually when the urge to quit the trail becomes almost overpowering. The irony of my moment was that I wanted to get back on the trail and didn't know how. I hadn't lost just Katz, my boon companion, but my whole sense of connectedness to the trail. I had lost my momentum, my feeling of purpose. In the most literal way I needed to find my feet again.

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.

We live in a world that doesn't altogether seem to want us here.

Still weakened, he finally made it onto a ship. It was nearly wrecked in a hurricane off the African coast. When at last he reached home, eleven and a half years after setting off, and having achieved nothing, he discovered that his relatives had had him declared dead in his absence and had enthusiastically plundered his estate.

Stoically, Le Gentil packed up his instruments and set off for the nearest port, but en route he contracted dysentery and was laid up for nearly a year.

The Super Constellations took three days to reach London [from Australia] and lacked the power or range to dodge most storms. When monsoons or cyclones were encountered, the pilots had no choice but to put on the seat belt signs and bounce through them. Even in normal conditions they flew at a height guaranteed to produce more or less constant turbulence. (Qantas called it, without evident irony, the Kangaroo Route.) It was, by any modern measure, an ordeal.

When even camels can't manage a desert, you know you've found a tough part of the world.

effects were horrific – Evans needed a kidney transplant and all members of the party suffered lasting damage – yet nothing in the taste alerted anyone to the perils

There are some things in life that just have to be faced up to, whether you want to or not.