Quotes About Adversity

But if we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us. We cannot do that, Eva. We cannot.

And you're not broken, Yona. It's the cracks in us that make us who we are, and you… you are stronger than anyone I have ever met, I think.

It's the cracks in us that make us who we are, Zus had said, and perhaps he'd been right. When a linden tree broke, it often grew back, stronger and more beautiful in its damaged places. What if the same was true for man?

nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.

the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear.

it's what's inside a person that counts. And sometimes, you have to walk through fire in order to find your true self. Maybe this is your fire.

The bumps in the road have a funny way of turning into stepping stones

Hope, you were born to do this," he says with his mouth full, and although I know it's a compliment, the words hit me hard, because I never intended to do this at all. It wasn't the life I wanted for myself, and Matt knows it. But my grandmother got sick, my mother died, and I no longer had a choice.

It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

She firmly believed that fears were best fought head-on. Courage being fear stuffed with hope and whatnot.

Ask, 'What's the meaning in this crisis? What's it trying to teach?' . . . Hard times can be gifts. They can force us to change and get us where we're meant to be.

When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Nothing matters until it hurts.

She should have known from that moment; nothing could hurt them. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse might have rode into town. Gilly and Sam would have knocked Death off his pale steed and swiped War's sword for a souvenir.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

My heart is broke but I have some glue.

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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.

I finally understood—I possessed more control than I had believed. Healthy people didn't always understand the scope of how much could be overcome. I certainly never had before I got sick.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.