Quotes About Adversity

I won't be the first man to spend his life barely alive, he told himself. Men did it. It was no great feat. He would live--he'd live a few scant miles from the heart of life, on its chill periphery. That suited him after all.

The best of us grieve over the loss but do not dwell on it. Instead we draw from our inner strength to help us move on from our pain.

Inner strength comes from previous suffering. It sounds like an incongruous statement but the reality is this; if you suffer now and survive it, it makes you better able to deal with suffering in the future.

Letting it matter too much. If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again.

Eve (to Roarke): Whatever happened to me back in Dallas, I came out of it. I'm standing here because of it. Maybe I have everything that matters to me, including you, because of it. If that's true, I'd go through it all again. I'd go through every minute of the hell to have you, to have my badge, to have this life.

I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

Officer down. Officer down. I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.

You go in, I go in. Listen--- He took her face in his hands. You go, I go. That's non-negotiable. If we're to get blasted to hell or poisoned into lunatics, we do it together. Crap, Crap. You have to look less rich and gorgeous. God help him, she made him grin. I'll do what I can.

Life has very little even ground.

Life, she remembered, had to be lived, even - and maybe particularly - in the middle of death

Love changes everything. I proposed to my wife after we limped away from a physical altercation with another serial killer. Good times." "Feels

He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king.

She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.

But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.

mostly suck—it's the law of averages, I figure, especially when you're on the job. Then you cross paths with people like that. Bad shit's happened to them, seriously bad shit, but they still come out of it decent.

If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again." "Who

A dog who'd been kicked often enough knew to stay down.

You get through a crisis by doing what needs to be done next.

the ground—she was a little thing, barely a hundred pounds—until the lack of oxygen had her going limp.

Out of terrible times, perhaps more than ordinary ones, heroes and villains spring. Sometimes there's little difference between them but a choice, and the choice made defines them. Look at the choices.

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And even when life sucks wide, it can get better.

arms around her. "It wasn't that bad. Well, bad, but not