Quotes About Adversity

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

Now once again: '2 students remaining.' But of course they're part of you now.

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

We're women & we deal with it, & we do it in a way that somehow becomes a gift. Isn't it something that we can take something so painful it makes you drop to the floor & turn it into a life lesson that makes you actually glad it happened? That's what women do. We get on with it.

It's okay. I have to ride this until it's just a whimper. I didn't think about what was happening. I wasn't ready for all this change. ... It never felt quite real.

Somehow the human heart figures out how to move on. It isn't easy but the alternative is a bit much.

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

WHILE THE WORLD IS not a vale of tears, there are times when it seems more so than others. As strong as we may be, these are the times we need a special power—the potent strength of the Divine Feminine.

Resilience) acknowledges from the outset that things will go wrong. All of our solutions will eventually outlive their usefulness. We will make messes, and disruption we do not cause or predict will land on us. This is the drama of being alive.

the question isn't whether we're going to have to do hard, awful things, because we are. We all are. The question is whether we have to do them alone.

Not everyone was strong. Not everyone rose to the occasion. Not everyone could carry the burdens of life. And weakness was a burden unto itself

Everyone makes mistakes. Its what you do after the mistake that matters

I could grow from that broken place and be better for it. A flower growing through a crack in the pavement, as it were.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

I won't let anything or anyone hurt you. Whatever comes our way, we'll handle it. Together -Finn, Chosen

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

Life is full of bad surprises.

You have to get past them. Life doesn't give us other options. You either learn from mistakes and grow or stagnate." Joel stared off into the distance.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

life—and the law—is hard on women. Sometimes doing the right thing is no help at all.

Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.