Quotes About Adversity

I needed to learn that you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded to admit defeat.

It's easy to be kind and giving and loyal when you have everything. But the mark of a true friend is when everything is taken away and you're still kind, giving, and loyal." "Margaret's going through a

Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.

We are born to fight the bends and curves of our own rivers, pushing back that which will not give, understanding where we are meant to be only when we let go and let the river take us back tot he place where we began.

His ability to recover from disappointments. Kimi Räikkönen is quite exceptional in that.

Kari Sutherland

How can you know you're a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?

sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.

When bad requirements happen to good people

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Das Ãœbel gedeiht nie besser, als wenn ein Ideal davorsteht

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." - Helen Keller

All life is problem solving

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Negative politics have always been around.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea.

Life shifts, sometimes shakes like an earthquake.

They say that some of those who failed to reach the top fell into deep ravines, and others were swallowed by monsters and demons," said Baz. "The monsters and demons were of their own making," said Tadis. "If you invent them, you will have to slay them. That is common practice, is it not? We invent monsters so we will have something to slay. Then we punish ourselves for not being up to the task.

No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.

I am my enemy Mowing me over, And towing the light away.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'