Quotes About Adversity

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

Look at this - an entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper.

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

Even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at it's core.

But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, Rule #3: No matter how dire things get, do not panic. It will only make a bad situation even worse. Besides, by the time you've reached the hit-the-panic-button stage, it's way too late. Nothing you do will make a difference anyhow. This is a phenomenon known to the ancients as irony. You may be more familiar with the contemporary expression of this concept: Life sucks. Particularly weekends.

But, no matter what I did, how many times hot water was added, how many minutes I stood before the fire to dry, I could not get warm. For my father's words and my own fears were like two cold fists clenched around my heart. The catastrophes had returned, and this time they came from within, not from without. Bad as what we had already endured had been, I knew that the worst was yet to come.

Life had caught up with her, run her down, and left her aching all over by the side of the road.

He had lost almost everything, and nothing was as dangerous as a person who had nothing more to lose.

But together she and Gustav seemed even weaker than they did individually. If they hadn't joined forces against the threat that Ruben represented, which had held them together like glue all these years, Vivi knew they never would have survived.

Faith is tested when we are confronted by difficulties. But that's also when our faith grows stronger.

sometimes it's the worst things in life that have the most to teach us. You take what you can, and as for the ugly parts, well—you 'leave it go and get on with the business of living,

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Para nada nos vale el apretar el paso al vernos sorprendidos en el medio de la llanura por la tormenta. Nos mojamos lo mismo y nos fatigamos mucho más.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu mutsuzluÄŸa al??am?yor, inan?n; çünkü çekmekte olduÄŸumdan daha beteri gelemez ba??ma diye avuturuz hep kendimizi, ama sonra, zamanla, beterin beterinin yolumuzu gözlediÄŸini anlamaya baÅŸlar?z.

Everyone has bad days. You have to make the good ones.

I have learned not to judge people by their limitations, but by the way they push past them.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Plan for the very worst, then pray for the very best. Savor the days when the sun shines, but have your raincoat and boots ready for the storms that will always blow in from the bay.

Courageous men are not fearless men, but those who climb despite fear. Everyone has a bridge to climb. At the end of the day, fear and I shake hands and part knowing we'll meet again when we climb our bridge together.

don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives?

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.