Quotes About Adversity

Not until we leave bad situations for worst situations, we shall least value and appreciate bad situations which shield us from the worst situation

It's not about what we go through in life, but how we come out shining on the other side that makes us who we are.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers.

If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs.

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain.

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown

I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again.

It was a test. Would I come back stronger? Or would I give up and quit? I don't think this is a particularly enlightened educational philosophy, but, in my case at least, it always had the desired effect.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

Chiar cel mai bun prieten e un duÈ™man în ceasurile grele. Atunci trebuie s? r?mâi singur. Trebuie s? izbândeÈ™ti sau s? fii înfrânt, singur.

Eu le accept s? m? îmbog??easc?, dar nu le las s? m? surpe. Socotesc c? cel care ÅŸtie s? se desfate în amintiri ÅŸi poate, totuÅŸi, s? le struneasc? e un adevarat b?rbat.

Hay épocas en las que sólo puedes avanzar yendo en la dirección opuesta

I realised then that life could get up and bite you – and now Covid has got up and bitten us all. I know that kindness and gentleness are the most valuable commodities. Now, more than ever, they demand distribution.

to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

And what have you been up to? she asked. Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser.

We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

She said what makes a tragedy bearable and unbearable is the same thing- which is that life goes on.

work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

You're a small thing and you must learn to fight.

after hearing my mom's survival dream I think maybe this is my survival dream and it's not a nightmare. It's the beginning of my own cure. Because to survive something we first need to know what it is we're surviving.