Quotes About Adversity

she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe even turn you into the person you were meant to be.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.

They didn't guarantee you'd come out a whole person.

Life is so unfair.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

I can't buy the idea that we're supposed to live and learn from horrible things. That somehow these things happen so we can grow as people

Life doesn't give you things you can't handle, does it?

Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances.

Once upon a time, I'd thought demon-hunting was hard. But that was before I'd become a mom. Trust me. In comparison to parenting, stalking and killing demons is a piece of cake.

Life isn't easy... Sometimes, stuff happens that isn't your fault, that you can't control. It doesn't mean you've failed or that or that you won't fail again. It just means that you have to fight harder. You have to be stronger. You can't let the bad stuff win. You have to keep getting up and moving forward even when you're afraid to or you don't think you can.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

When all else fails, smile.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

Baby leaving you is easier than being gone I don't know what I'll do if one more thing goes wrong

There's something about hitting rock bottom that makes two inches higher seem like Mount Diablo.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

and at that point the church quietly articulated these words, which tell us something of the secret of old buildings: 'The worse I am threatened, the lovelier I become.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Mi secretaria lloraba , leyendo el decreto por el cual me dejaban cesante. Para consolarme decidì abstraer sus lágrimas, por un rato me deleité con esas diminutas fuentes cristalinas que nacían en el aire y se aplastaban en los biblioratos, el secante y el boletín oficial. La vida está llena de hermosuras así.