Quotes About Adversity

This is our task: be serene at all times, do not be vengeful, nor scorn your enemy; speak truthfully, befriend the virtuous, be equable in the face of disaster. Be aware that everything must pass, just as clouds arise, drift, and disperse, so do not seek to cling to anything.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

She realized that all her life the teachings of those early days have influenced me and the example set by father and mother has been something I have tried to follow, which failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star, -Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'As A Farm Woman Thinks.' Missouri Ruralist, August 1, 1923; Farm Journalist, p. 290.

Self-appointed defenders of freedom seem to know nothing of the loss of liberty attendant upon seriously adverse economic conditions. No regimentation is more cruel than that of extreme poverty. The cramped and barren lives of millions of sharecroppers in the southern states, the deplorable conditions in some of the coal-mining areas, the slum districts in almost any large city, are a pitiful contradiction to our boasted 'inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The last few days, including today, of wind and dust have finished any lingering hope of wheat for us and I feel myself that we simply threw away the carefully hoarded barley seed. Hardly any hope that it had time to sprout or could survive if it had under present 'dust bowl' conditions. I always said I was the only one who could remember those dreadful days - for any practical purpose. People have simply assumed it couldn't happen again (1951)

The same week another disaster overtook us... vicious pelting of hail...What to do? We hardly know, but, as the saying goes, we have the bear by the tail and it looks like a poor time to let go.

I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when his son doesn't come home during a national disaster. The thing is, I'm lucky. I had the bookstore.

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

He laughs and hugs me and says that I shouldn't believe anyone who tells me it's gonna get better. "Ride the wave," he says. "Don't wait for it. Don't fear it. Just ride it.

It's amazing how good 50 and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in 12 with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

every person you meet is two or three bad decisions away from being a junkie, homeless, dealing with a horrible disease, or getting a bullet to the back of the head.

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive

We're not defective. We're survivors. That's a good thing.

That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better.

time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

The Fiddler's Roost Inn: the taproom and yard. Sometimes it was not in a lady's best interests to follow any dictates but those of her own heart. Because Lady Charlotte Ascot, daughter of the Earl of Ware, had discovered this at a young age—eight, to be precise, during a footrace against boys with considerably longer legs than she—when faced with a challenge to her courage at the age of twenty-one, she did

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she admired the strength and kindness with which he handled his wife's suicide attempts, saying that it taught her that all of life, including the filthy bits, could in some way nourish the human spirit.

Even when faced with unspeakable loss, Marie Antoinette tackled her difficulties as she always had - by choosing costumes that emphasized her resilience of spirit.

I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.