Quotes About Adversity

I'm sorry. My dad is dead too. Now climb, young grasshopper, so your kung fu won't be weak.

It was dangerous to think you'd seen it all. It tempted fate to throw something worse in your face.

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn

But each new vexation brought the memory of the last, and the fact that it had been solved. Vexation was vexing, but idleness was like death.

had proved myself stronger than life had ever asked him to be.

Life is always going to get in the way of our best intentions and most well-made plans.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering," she told Gus. "It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.

It's easy to look back and think how we could make only the good things happen to us,' counseled Catherine, still swishing her mop to and fro, spreading dirty water instead of soaking it up. 'But that's not how we become ourselves. You are mad who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

I promise, you will survive this," she had said. "Not only that, you will be glad to survive. You will love him forever, but you will learn things you could never have learned when you shared your life with him. You will become yourself.

But though I tried, my days went by as if I was walking barefoot over sharp stones, whilst carrying a large tray laden with the finest crystal goblets. Fear and too much caution ...they'll make you stumble, sir. 'Tis just a matter of time.

Ba?kald?ran olmak, her zaman devrimci olmak de?ildir. Ço?unlukla, bata?a daha fazla saplanmak demektir.

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

I know how it feels to have a comfortable world suddenly turn against you,' I replied. 'My husband died, and poverty made my sorrow ten times

I am glad we've been bombed,' said the Queen famously. 'It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

My theory of the universe is if God sees you enjoying yourself, he will fuck up the next week of your life completely.

My timing isn't the best, but this isn't a Texas hailstorm that's over in a minute.