Quotes About Adversity

I have learned that no matter how bad, how really rotten your life gets - I mean,like,it just couldn't get any worse - there is always hope." -Pamela Collins

For if any adversity, grief, or sickness, or loss of children, corn, cattle, or liberty happen unto them, by and by they exclaim upon witches.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

They say troubles never comes singly,

I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.

It is possible to speak concretely about God's providnce only on the basis of the blood of the cross ... He who sees things this way will never succumb to the temptation to identify prosperity with blessing and adversity with curse. In faith ... one can accept prosperity as the gift of God and adversity as God's hand graciously leading him to faith.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Ben ters yönde dönen ve dünyan?n tersine giden ?eylerden korkmam, etrafta hüküm süren çöküntüyü ve her ?eyin eskiyip y?pranmaktaki inad?n? de?i?tirir bu, demek istedi?im anla??ld?ysa e?er.

Memento audere semper. Et ventis adversis.

Gabrielle Lord

Qu'est-ce que tu veux, Florentine, on fait pas comme on veut dans la vie; on fait comme on peut." ... "Moi, je ferai comme je voudrai.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

I accept your condemnation," I said.

There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy. But with people like your friend, you must be exceptionally gentle, or they may break.