Quotes About Adversity

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.

There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.

It's bizarre, almost, how lucky I am that I don't get a lot of trolling and the odd time I do, you just wait and watch because the fans They take out the trash for you, you know what I mean?

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

'Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot of us like that.

Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

The more trauma and bad experiences you have, the more you are able to laugh on yourself and the situation.

My childhood had extremely difficult moments and some trauma but there were also amazing moments and times of pure happiness.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.

I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.

Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.