Quotes About Adversity

Life is full of surprises and not all of them are good.

The bed was lumpy, the fire smoked so badly I was forced to extinguish it or die, then I froze to death the rest f the night because the blanket was so thin. That's a shame. It was right comfortable in the tack room. I've a cot and a neat little pot-bellied stove. Dougal sent a thoughful look at the barn. Can you put up another cot?

I wish I could tell you that I leapt to my feet anyway, snake be dammed. Or that I wrestled the snake and then fought my opponent. But I saw the icy cold disdain in the snake's eyes and did the only prudent thing I could - I froze in my place. After a long few moments, the grew bored and slithered away, as had my opponent. Yet I felt that I had won, for I lived to fight another day.

Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one.

But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination.

People who really live have a little wear and tear. But that's good. It's what makes us interesting.

We must all run through a storm or two before we reach our destinations.

It's sad, but life is not fair. I sometimes think it was never supposed to be. Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said this so distinctly in my head that I heard it as well as said it. As if I was quite used to finding someone with no sense of boundaries in my space, fiddling with my things and breaking most of them. Here we go again

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

Well, it's got to be terrible

As far as Ahsoka Tano was concerned, the only thing worse than being up to her armpits in battle droids was waiting to find out just how long it would be before she was up to her armpits in battle droids.

You're not fine. You're losing." "From a certain point of view, possibly," said Obi-Wan. Then he smiled, a feral baring of teeth. "But I prefer to think of it as … not winning at the moment. So we go.

The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths. But those faint traces, instead of detracting from the resplendent tones and rich hues of the intertwined threads, only intensified their splendor. It was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope.

You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch.

You don't have

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

Rock shrews. It had all started with damned rock shrews.

Sorrows don't drown; they briefly submerge only to float to the surface with greater fierceness.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb

That's the problem with life, Sam. If you're not rising, you're falling.

This is where feminism had gotten her: locked in the back of a sticky squad car with the skirt on her tennis dress riding up her thighs.