Quotes About Adversity

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through will be remarkable, change everything.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.

Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people's will to do wrong in the name of right.

Never make a roadblock of yourself on trouble's road. No, make yourself a bridge instead, with stones slick as grease.

When does it happen? All those wounds that ended up making us the adults we are?

it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue.

Is love so paltry a thing, to be plucked and dropped to the ground at the first breath of contempt?

Pain worn without pause and for so long could itself become a mask.