Quotes About Adversity

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 trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.

I know a few universals like: he who can destroy a thing controls it. Not that I get off on destroying things but when you get backed against a wall, coming out with both guns blazing is pretty much your only choice. I want enough power to void a contract, enough to quit my job, permanent-like.

as long as you're still capable of suffering you're still capable of joy.

I can either be a victim—or a winner. Fuck victimhood. I don't wear it well; it clashes with my wardrobe.

I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me.

I will confront the wasp in our nest come morning.

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

My world began falling apart with the death of my sister, and hasn't stopped since. And it's not just my world that's in trouble; it's your world, too.

The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It's the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

Life fucks you anonymously. It doesn't want to know your name, doesn't give a shit about your station. The terrain never stops shifting. One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

I'm always thinking things are as bad as they can get and they get worse.

Karen Marie Moning

feet ahead, driving thousands of tiny, needlelike grains into our unprotected face, our eyes.

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.

When I lived at the abbey, Ro told me I have growing pains and that superheroes have them worse than most people.

When I was in high school, I used to hate that Sylvia Plath poem where she talked about knowing the bottom, that she knew it with her great taproot and that it was what everybody else feared, but she didn't, because she'd been there. I still hate it. But I get it now.

Some people wouldn't see a traitor when they looked at me. Some people would see a survivor. Call me anything you like—I sleep fine at night.

He might be my wave, but he wasn't my surfboard. Knowledge and usefulness were all that stood between me and the riptide.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

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.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Whoever it was who'd said life's a bitch didn't know the half of it. Death was the bitch's bigger, badder sister.