Quotes About Adversity

You just might make a good devil yet.

Life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Life is a maze of doors, and all too often they are closed.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.

Complexity yields resilience.

Learning to climb a mountain is like repeating infancy. First you master the act of breathing, move on to walking, then accept the challenge of falling down without bonking your head.

They could take this away from you, too," I said. "Who take what?" "Government. Shut down the harpy project." "Nahh," she said. "No way. And even if they did, I'd find something else. You don't stop. If you lose a battle, that doesn't mean you stop. You keep fighting, You find other battles. The work to save what's left of nature is endless. You can get really down and depressed. But you can't stop and stand aside and let the wheels keep rolling in the wrong direction.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

If the hardtack got moldy it was usually thrown away as inedible, but if it just got weevily it was issued anyway. Heating it at the fire would drive the weevils out; more impatient soldiers simply ate it in the dark and tried not to think about it.

But when the men went ashore for firewood, the wind veered and breakers began rolling into the bay. Captain and crew had to strip and shove the boat out to sea : 'Oh! It was cold. And the sight of all hands naked was enough to make a cat laugh. We were red as lobsters and our teeth chattering.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

Children become resilient as a result of the patterns of stress and of nurturing that they experience early on in life

What happened to you?" is so important in understanding what's going on with you now.

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength.

Our society's transgenerational social fabric is fraying. We're disconnecting. I think that's making us more vulnerable to adversity, and I think it's a significant factor in the increases in anxiety, suicide, and depression we are seeing currently, even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

All of us who have been broken and scarred by trauma have the chance to turn those experiences into what Dr. Perry and I have been talking about: post-traumatic wisdom.

Adversity impacts the developing child. Period. What the impact will be, when it may manifest, how it may be "buffered"-we can't always say. But developmental trauma will always influence our body and brain.

What happened to you can be your power.

It is impossible to be truly wise without some real-life hardship. And we cannot develop post-traumatic wisdom without weathering and, most importantly, as you [Oprah] put, weathering together…A healthy community is a healing community, and a healing community is full of hope because it has seen its own people weather-survive and thrive.