Quotes About Adversity

I should have stayed in my nest, which was, of course, my ignorance. Now I was out among the giants, and I would have to be more vigilant.

I cannot lead an army, and fighting disgusts me, but destiny, or the forces of chaos, saw fit to equip me in other ways.

Before he entered its shadow, Ays glanced back at the cavern he was leaving. He moured the loss of light, but braced himself for another more difficult stage of the journey.

Even though she stood beyond the shadow, she had to shiver.

He looked up at her, his face that of total vulnerability. He was a boy again, confused because the world had acted against him.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

The organizing theme of 1 Corinthians is how to live as a Christian in an increasingly secular world.

Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.

We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white. ~Lew Fonesca

But in a fit of inspiration he'd fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin.

Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.

I thought about my family. It was small by any standard, shrunken to a handful by Hitler, Stalin, and divorce.

I don't see where people get all this bull about the kid who's gonna be President and being a newsboy made a President out of him. It taught him how to handle his money and this bull. You know what it did? It taught him how to hate the people on his route. And the printers. And dogs.

razor blades and shoe laces.

When I get kind of low, I'd think about a verse I learned at one time, when everybody was fighting me. It went something like this: He has no enemies, you say, My friend, the boast is poor. He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have foes. If he has none, Small is the work he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip, Has cast no cup from perjured lip, Has never turned the wrong to right, He's been a coward in the fight.

Subhadra Sen Gupta

My sorrows are my strength I won't share it with anyone to get rid of it

The biggest surprise-- and it came as a great revalation-- was understanding that whatever happens, no matter how catastrophic or wonderful, it's just another patch. There are times when something special happens: a marriage, graduation, or the birth of a child. There's no denying it's a glorious patch. It might even be a red patch-- the one that pulls the whole quilt together. But I couldn't stop repeating, "It's just another patch.

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable you see what you're made of and who you are.

Everyone's life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories--if they are interesting--have drama.

There's no getting around the fact that Robinson met these challenging days with maturity and courage,' she would write in 1956. 'It takes guts to keep your mouth shut and walk away. It is against every normal reaction of human behavior. But Robinson did it.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.