Quotes About Adversity

When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective

It is what it is--but you have the power to turn it into an isn't-so-bad

There is a gain in every pain

You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: You get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.

When I'm hurting, it feels good to laugh. This is because, when life gets tough, we have two choices: We can cry about it, or we can laugh, and laughing is easier on the mascara. Crying makes me look like a raccoon.

It's okay to be scared as long as you use it.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

when you lose your sails, row.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim....Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

There are times when fear needs to be in the driver's seat. The best learning and growing happens when wisdom is won from pain.

We've learned that great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness. It's like a needed reminder that the human spirit is alive and well despite all evidence to the contrary.

You're strong at the broken places.

Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.

He was just born with inner demons that were always stronger than he was.

Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you and suck you under.

you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.

Everything I've ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it's up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

that would be a lot like planting a rose in the desert; you'd survive but you'd never really bloom.