Quotes About Adversity

They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.

As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.

You've fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can't fall off the floor.

Karin Slaughter

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life; it was part of the human condition. How they struggled through adversity proved what kind of people they were.

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special

It wasn't enough for Julia to be taken away from the family. All the good things about her had to be taken away, too.

There are good days and bad days, and as long as there aren't too many of either, you get along with your life fine.

the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Claire

sick of floating between disaster points like an amoeba inside a petri dish.

Just about every gang in America had started as a group of minorities, be they Irish, Jewish, Italian, or other, banding together for survival. It generally took a couple of years before they started doing worse than was done to them.

you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad

Kids like that didn't live the lives they wanted. They survived the lives they had.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

purely negative approach

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

Life is struggle.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.

Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed a difficult woman. Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.

God uses the obstacles in our lives to prepare us for leadership, building courage, character, and confidence.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening