Quotes About Adversity

Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. —CÉSAR CHÁVEZ

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

I thought change started from within." "Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you.

When times is tough and jobs is scarce, folks blame the outsider. It's human nature.

How can I possibly sleep at a time like this?" He sighed. "You will learn that a lot of things are possible.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.

How they made out of shamelessness something beautiful, for as long as they could.

Every age has had its darkness and its dangers. The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

I am impressed anew by... how much the harshness that challenges life is what causes the beauty. Birds fly because they must escape predators and search for food. Trees grow skyward because they compete fiercely with other trees for light. Living things need something to push off of. Each of us needs challenges to give us the right shape.

The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.They will be tricked and sold and again soldAnd go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

You have to go through it to get through it." That

it is in how you meet the conditions of life that the quality of life inheres, not in the events or circumstances themselves.

El hombre que no se doblega, fácilmente se puede quebrar

Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness

Stoop and you'll be stepped on stand tall and you'll be shot at.

You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.