Quotes About Adversity

Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity.

It's not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us, that makes the difference.

No matter what the challenge or adversity, my ironclad conviction is that God is always good, is always on his throne, is always working, always knows what he is doing, and that his love for me never stops.

One can live without having survived

Before enduring it we will endure it.

It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.

In that short time I'd saved Dahlia House from the developers, found a stray dog that turned out to be a real treasure, obtained the best partner in the world, and been gifted with a horse from my friend Lee McBride.

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

Yesterday was one of those days when nothing went right, and I wouldn't have noticed it if it had.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

But how am I to live in the meantime?' I wailed. 'Tis for you to decide,' he said. 'You can be her enemy and make yourself miserable by it, or you can endure it. If 'twere me, I'd choose endurance.

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much to leave us where we are. So, he uses what happens to us to always, always draw us to him.

She knew only that she felt better doing something instead of sitting back, a helpless David facing down an indifferent Goliath.

So that's all right then, isn't it?" she said. "If you can't go there with them, the best you can do is to be there when they get back." She reached over and touched his cheek. "We all suffer something, don't we?" she said. "Some of us just go down harder than others.

I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone's spirits.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

it's important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes -- I hear angels sing.

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

Now this is a delusion, but it's my delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.