Quotes About Adversity

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

often took it out on me. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.

Thumbs my eyes, throws my breath, tackles my heart, And rain hacks my head to the bone, the hawk hangs The diamond point of will that polestars The sea drowner's endurance:

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?

The [Madeira] School is still all girls and still thriving, and I am forever grateful for my time there and what it taught me. Not least of which is how to hold on tight and fake it during those trying stretches when functioning—and finishing—are not necessarily assured. To that end, I will repeat the line from my own senior yearbook page, not from Miss Madeira, but from Andrew Jackson: "You are uneasy; you've never sailed with me before, I see.

In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.

And trans women and femmes share another important attribute: We are survivors. The rest of the world may assume we are weak and fragile because of our feminine inclinations, but in reality, living with other people's relentless misogynistic bullshit has made us tenacious bad-asses.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.

One of Satan's most seductive traps is convincing us that we cannot do what we will not do.

Life is hard. It's cruel sometimes. It's merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.

The important thing is to keep getting up each day knowing that everything can turn on a dime. For better or for worse. Sometimes bad things happen, and people will always make mistakes, but isn't that how we learn and grow stronger? That's why we need to treasure each moment of every day, learn how to accept and forgive, and never fear what might be over the horizon, even if it looks dark and cloudy. Because it just might turn out to be the best day of your life.

I've learned that even when life drags you down into the deepest pit of despair, that's the most important time to keep believing, because you never know when you're going to sling-shot upwards, straight out of there.