Quotes About Adversity

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

It's worse now because before I had 16 Republican, conservative people and the media had their favorite but they didn't particularly love anybody. Now it's myself really against the media.

We all love challenges.

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God's way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility