Quotes About Adversity

Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!

Out of what trifles grow the tragedies of life.

If your $99 printer breaks and you have to pay out of pocket to fix or replace it, this will not meaningfully change your life.

So there are two kinds of suffering. One is when we feel we're being pressed down; as though suffering is coming at us from without, as though we're receiving something that's making us suffer. The other kind of suffering is being under, just bearing it, just being it.

On the withered tree, a flower blooms.

Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

If I were a believer in the theory of "rock bottom," this could very well have been it. As it stands, I am not a believer. Rock bottom is for sissies; I've hit rock bottom dozens of times. I've woken up next to a billy goat, for Christ's sake. You don't just give up!

She sang. Loudly. Cheerfully. Defiantly. The sun will come up, to-mor-row... If the man battling the elements heard her, he gave no indication. She finished the songs she knew from Annie , then started on Phantom of the Opera. Tally sang to keep the fear tamped down. She sang to defy the storm. She sang to make sure God knew where she was since she couldn't think of an appropriate prayer. And she sincerely hoped He liked show tunes.

extricating herself from tricky situations unscathed. She'd never met a lock she couldn't pick or a tight spot she couldn't wiggle out of. Be that actual or verbal. But she'd hit her first wall. And it scared the bejesus out of her how helpless she was right now.

You start out every day with something new and different, and sometimes it looks pretty good and sometimes it doesn't, but you have to go through it anyway.

Sometimes, we do things that are bad for us in an effort to cope with problems.

Chet Cunningham

I've told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried—children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive.

My people have a saying which my father often used. A man whose horse is missing will look everywhere even in the roof.

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Un coeur fier peut survivre à un échec général parce qu'un tel échec ne blesse pas son orgueil. C'est plus difficile et plus amer quand un homme échoue tout seul.

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

Un corazón orgulloso puede sobrevivir a un fracaso general, porque ese fracaso no afecta a su orgullo.