Quotes About Adversity

I am, in general, an easygoing person. I try to take a reed-bending-with-the-wind attitude toward life, rather than fight everything. But these constant "out of the frying pan, into the fire, into a worse fire, into a worse fire than the worse fire before it" situations that had been riddling my life of late were beginning to wear me down

there comes a time in everyone's life when you are tested, a moment when you learn exactly what sort of person you are. Either you triumph over such moments by sheer bravado and a sense of humor, or you sink into mortification and allow them to taint the rest of your life.

I have much power. In the days to come I will grow stronger, and I would hate for you to find yourself on the wrong side of that which cannot be avoided." "Hyperbole and mystic aggrandizement, you mean?

Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They're entitled to their opinions. They're not the enemy." "Who is the enemy?" "Censors.

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Struggle and suffer, Fourteenth! (heart)

Desperation is always unattractive, no matter how justified.

There are times, beloved, when God will place you in the middle of trials—a hospital stay, rejection, a financial blow. He lets you hurt as others hurt, knowing that the way you handle it will be a testimony, that your response will show others that there's something awesomely different about you.

he'd thought of fate as something hostile, a thief moving soundlessly in the night

She was one in a million, Tyler was. A strong, intelligent woman with the beauty to launch ships and the courage to follow them into battle. Kane could recall a number of past occasions when he'd been glad to have her at his side when things had gotten sticky. Tyler never waited for the cavalry to come charging to the rescue, but instead grabbed a big stick and started swinging. She'd very nearly brained him once or twice.

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?

He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened.

What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe.

I figure I made out pretty good considering the rest of my family is either dead or crazy.

mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You're in the hallway and it feels scary right now but just keep going. There's another door, and you're going to find it. And then the whole world is going to open up to you.