Quotes About Adversity

Love, Caroline decided as she looked at him, was a strange thing. Like a persistent weed in a sea of pavement, it could survive in the nooks and crannies of the heart, and just when you thought it had been completely ripped out by the roots, it would shoot right back up.

you. Can you tell us your name, give us the name of

He's a soldier. We all fight in our own ways. And sometimes we do things we might not want to do." Otto hung his coat, then turned to look at her. "What you have to ask yourself is where you would be right now if he hadn't been there when you needed help. Remember Morocco?

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

got a kick in the ass from one of our clients. He'd lost his sight in an accident—hard enough, but he was a surgeon. His career, in his mind, was over." "Was it?" "Of course not. He couldn't do surgery, but he could other things. Over time, and with a lot of nagging, he began to accept that. He restarted his life, reinvented himself." "You saved him." She shook her head, embarrassed. "No. I was just his friend.

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.

The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. When I was a kid I couldn't see any of these ridges. It was only after Swamplandia!'s fall that time folded into a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

Sometimes you are able to keep moving because you are not really yourself anymore. Your entire brain can shrink to one pinhead of cognition, one star in a night.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.

Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you.

Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through.

Seek out the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, what make you grateful, not hateful.

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.

You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!

You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.

feeling means your dealing means your healing

Everything in life comes with a pooper scooper factor

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.

Step into my shoes follow my journey my mountains my valleys my surprise potholes and if you can keep going the way I keep going perhaps you'll understand my choices & strength.