Quotes About Adversity

They had no churches, but used the mountainous areas of this locality, meeting in mountain valleys, lonely places etc, meeting together at night rather than in the day. They had no pastors, but many believers organized themselves and produced their own leaders. They had no Bibles, but they recited them from memory, using hand-written copies and mimeographed sheets to meet their needs. Although some secret meetings were discovered, local Christian activities continued uninterrupted.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Go to the devil, Captain Drake. (Serenity) That's not very ladylike! (Morgan) Then try this one. Go to hell, and…and rot! (Serenity)

But my father's is closest. (Emily) A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven)

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it.

Cookie didn't dare light a fire, so we have cold food this evening. (Morgan) Yum. Hard-boiled wood, my favorite. (Serenity)

Fate was indeed a cruel bitch, and she was laughing mightily at him this day.

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)

Ad Astra Per Aspera

it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.

You would be entirely justified if you spent your entire life railing against your misfortune. But there is another option. Rise above your fate. Internalize your calamity and give it a heroic dimension as Bhishma did. It was a thoughtful disquisition and its central insight applied to all of us since there is no man born who is not handicapped in one way or another. So it is up to us to make the best of a botched job. After

It isn't what we lose that defines us. It's what we refuse to release." Janeway

Maintainig a positive attitude is essential, especially in trying times

And then I look to my right and Kathryn Janeway is standing beside me. I know in some ways that should make me feel better. I mean, whom would you rather have beside you in a fight?

This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.

in these situations, you followed the rules first. You toed the line. You made sure to cross every t and dot every i. And when that didn't work, it was time to bring out the goddamned gators.

Her good, solid, middle-class mother had tried so hard to iron out her rough edges—and blamed herself when she realized she hadn't succeeded. Those rough edges had rubbed quite a few people the wrong way. Somehow Jo had always sensed those weren't the kind of people she wanted around her. And as she grew older, she saw that those who wanted girls to be docile and disciplined were often the same people who took advantage of them.

Nothing ages a person like poverty and misery

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Doors of heroes into the world are not easily opened but those that exit them are easily opened

COVID-19 may compel us to address our inner problems in ways we would not have previously considered.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.