Quotes About Adversity

I came through the crucible, and it did not reduce me to ashes. I survived.

Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.

When people are thrown into an abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people. They are bound to one

Yes. Strangely enough, war has a way of absolving us of the mistakes we make while in its dreadful shadow, but it keeps this absolution a secret. I didn't realize I was playing my cards against a cruel opponent that had its own cards to play.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

When people are thrown into the abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people.

But with Mama and Uncle Fred and Charlie, the world doesn't stop. It just keeps spinning, with all its troubles, yanking us into its wild revolutions. There is no stepping into mourning, all secluded with nothing but much-warranted sorrow for company. Instead it's as if the train we're all on switched tracks at full speed and now we are racing forward in a completely new direction with no time to think about the destination we'd been headed toward before and now will never see.

Despair is love's fiercest enemy.

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right.

That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.

There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

I *was* happy, and the war, which had been so adept at stealing everything I loved, could not steal this, because happiness is not something that can be taken from you. You can lose it, but no one can take it from you. Not even the thief that is war.

And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right. But later, when the war is over, we'll remember that we didn't let it break us. . . .

That makes it survival. That is what you do in war. You find a way to survive.

parents dead. Can't backpack, can't do hip hop. Who am I, really? Now I get to find out.

Despite our best efforts, you came to the game at different times and as you know for different reasons. All the reasons go back to the fact that the game board has drastically changed. Know that it always does, though. War, drought, famine, illness, death, poverty. The game board changes underneath your feet. We did not want you to feel the pain of this.

sickly, but they'd both grown stronger on the trail.

It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.

Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky

I used to be a blanket - without seams - a silk cocoon of happy dreams. Now I'm a quilt, no square the same a patchwork of pleasure and pain

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

I want us all to stop thinking only in terms of accomplishments, of task and completion, of beating the competition, of gathering income and merchandise, of winning praise, and instead, live our lives forging the deepest relationships we can with ourselves and with one another. i want us to respond to adversity by deepening our engagement in our lives. It isn't complicated.

Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears.