Quotes About Adversity

I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego and average good luck, so that you would expect her to land somewhere near the middle of the world. Instead she's over there at the edge. The least vibration could knock her off.

I'm beginning to feel like a forty-niner myself, groused Mimi. Our trip to California has been fraught with problems so far.

When conditions allowed, he ordered fires lit to dry his men's sodden gear.

It would seem that to Bligh, infliction of punishment was like sickness, and scurvy, something that had no place on a well-run ship. William Bligh had set out to make the perfect voyage.

The Connecticut River March 2, 1704 Temperature 10 degrees One of the Sheldon boys had frozen his toes. His Indian came over to look but shook his head. There was nothing to be done. Ebenezer Sheldon could limp to Canada or give up. "Guess I'll limp," said Ebenezer, grinning.

Caroline B. Cooney

Eben would rather have had that knife pierce his chest and kill him than live to acquire an Indian vocabulary, but it was something to do and it kept Mercy cheerful.

Having to say, "If this is what I must accept, so be it," can feel like chewing glass, but not being able to accept what you cannot change is like having to swallow those shards of glass.

Sometimes the elements of our life present us with a challenge that is an initiation in disguise, a fire walk that burns your lower nature right out of you so that you are able to adapt to a higher level of consciousness.

Wake up every morning and eat a bullfrog first thing, and the rest of the day will go just fine.

Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be

A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity—even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.

The only thing that held it together the previous summer was baling wire, cheap used parts, and cussin' that would fry the hair out of a frog's nostrils.

You know there's sunshine back in behind most storms.

Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war, Betsy said.

But a southern woman holds her head high and does not run from her problems, no matter if she's walking in tall cotton or deep manure She remembered Roxie's words.

Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Two people were supposed to have enough love to carry them through the bad times.

And you can use that bad experience as a crutch to hobble around on for the rest of your life, or you can get over it.

We all just get a day at a time. It's up to us whether we fight the demons that plague us or if we give in to them.

So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.

You have to fight twice- once against your fear and once against your enemy.