Quotes About Adversity

Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

I mean everybody's messed up." "What's your point?" "We wear our problems differently.

The enemy is too strong. I can't fight them. They're too smart. You're smart too, soldier. Not smart enough. So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it

everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be

We are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. If you are successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful if something had been easier.

It's all you have when you realize you are not entirely in control of outcomes. But without it, how else do we cope with the challenges of life?

Contrary to the collective delusion thatMother Nature is a nurturing, caring entity that cradles and protects all its forms of life, Earth is instead a giant killing machine. Holding aside all the climatic and geologic forces that would just as soon have you dead, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, there's no end of creatures that want to suck your blood, inject you with venom, infect your physiology, or simply eat you.

I mean, I'm as fucked up and miserable as the next person, but I don't let it get me down. You know?

If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.

Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand.

Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. Where there's a problem, there's an opportunity.

The first person we saw when we entered the building was Muhammad Ali, perhaps a perfect symbol for the decade to come - a former powerhouse battling a degenerative disease.

Something changed in me, as it did for many people, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It felt like the day I first beat my father at arm wrestling. In that moment, I realized that he could no longer protect me. I had to take care of myself.

God will test your faith in order to strengthen it, but Satan's temptations are intended to destroy your faith.

share any mental or physical opposition that you are experiencing.

God does not promise to make a bad thing good, nor has He assured us that He will keep us from bad things. He has promised us that in all things-even those that are terrible-good can come out of it for all those who love Him.

I have imagined Helga Crane as a dancer or, like Larsen herself, a writer, but one who would find a way to devise a more satisfying ending than the script the world had handed her.

Well, we all have our good days. That one bad night can ruin.

For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.

Fate whispered to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the coming storm." And the warrior whispered back, "I am the storm.

I think we opened a Pandora's box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet's nest." "You can say that again." But I didn't. I said, "We've been cut loose." I thought a moment, then added, "But I think we can go it alone." "I guess we have no choice. But I still want to know about West Point.

But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.