Quotes About Adversity

Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming.

one never really knows what one is capable of until the situation presents itself.

It feels like someone's using a tennis ball machine to fire starving pug dogs at you.

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way. He

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way.

There's no nipping women's ideas. Cut them down one place, they grow up another. You wouldn't know where you'd be.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

Sooner or later, we all end up getting a good kick in the certainties. That's what life is. The trick is to turn that kick into a stepping-stone towards the next level of certainty.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That's all life is, on this earth anyway.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

Beat the storm to feel the breeze !!

He might take her life, but he could never take her will, nor break her pride. She was a daughter of Pecht kings; he was naught but a feckless

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

A cool thing is that stuff can always get worse and it usually does

You can't just give up on a movie during the dark night of the soul, he'd said. What's that? I asked. That's the point in a film when all hope is lost and the protagonists must dig deeper than ever before to prevail against the odds stacked against them.

Equanimity practice can be an inner resource to turn to whenever we face difficult moments. The practice of equanimity involves silently repeating to yourself a phrase while you reflect on its meaning.

she and trouble knew each other rather intimately. No reason the end of the war would stop such a seemingly natural pairing, she supposed.' - Chapt 1, The Ghosts of Paris, Tara Moss

somewhere up there is another little boy who's thirsty for the sky, facing a lifetime in the dark. And somewhere up there is another little girl who has no idea how to dig out from under the weight of an unwanted future. They need to know that there are other paths ... that they are the treasure of the world.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.

Life isn´t about what happens to us. It´s about how we perceive what happens to us.

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