Quotes About Adversity

It's sad, but life is not fair. I sometimes think it was never supposed to be. Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up. And I'm learning, watching Daddy, that you can stay in one place and still grow.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?

What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

There are only two things to worry about in life: either you're free or you're not. If you're free, there's nothing to worry about. If you're not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are.

There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.

Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked hopefully. "No." "Of course not. How silly of me. And for our return adventure we will be scaling the side of Mount Everest, hiking boots to be provided by our trusty sponsor, Barrons Books and Baubles.

Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

A little blood never bothers me.

Who says we need the walls back up? You're roaches, we're Raid. We'll get rid of you eventually.

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

You think you're going to chain me to a wall then stand here and tell me why it's okay that I am the way I am? That because of all the crap folks put me through when I was young it's all right that I turned out like this? Dude, I don't have a problem with how I turned out. I like me.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.