Quotes About Adversity

Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there'd be days like these. How could nobody tell me there'd be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.

What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.

Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.

Karen Marie Moning

The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.

Things never stop going wrong. Life isn't about waiting for peace to arrive, it's about learning to thrive in the midst of war. There's always another one on the way

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet."- Dageus

When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

Things never stop going wrong. Life isn't about waiting for peace to arrive, it's about learning to thrive in the midst of war. There's always another one on the way." He

But we have to— No we don't. But we can't— Yes we can. But she doesn't— She'll figure it out. But it's— Not your fault and not your problem. But I'm the one— Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want?

Hope strengthens. Fear kills. It's how you go on that defines you

Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.

We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do.

Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.