Quotes About Adversity

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia

Have we ever had an enemy worse than ourselves?

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

Pain is weakness leaving the body." We

Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

The question is, will poisoning the voices kill them, or just make them really, really pissed off?

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.

How do you dream of a future when you're not supposed to have one? How do you keep going when the world has disowned you?- -I keep reminding myself that I'm right, and the world is wrong.- -But how do you know?- -I believe. I don't have your kind of faith, but I got faith in myself...-

Can I throw you under a truck some other time.

There was no lane line, no net, nothin to keep them apart but the well of her will. But that kept losing bricks

Count your blessings," the captain says. "And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.

even the darkest moments of one's life can be turned around and shed light for others.

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There is opportunity in every disaster, Jeri told her. A ship goes down, that's when I get excited. Because I know there are always treasures in the wreckage. Look what I found at the bottom of the sea. I found you.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.

What happened to you is kind of like a fire, in a way. I saw this thing once on T.V. They said wildfires have to happen every so often. Brush gets too thick, trees get too dense. You have a hot day and whoosh! But the heathy trees survive. In fact, there are some seeds that won't even grow until they burn first. So have you lost some friends today? Maybe, but they weren't real friends. They were just brush. And the ones who stick by you, the ones who get it? They're the healthy trees.

La esperanza bajo la sombra del miedo es el incentivo más poderoso.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator. Citra

Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.

No, don't forget it, but you have to process it and move on. Live your life. Otherwise he took your future away from you too.

I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it's hard to stop—and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.

Hope is a terrible thing to lose. Sometimes that wounded space gets filled with scar tissue, bitter, ugly, and angry.