Quotes About Adversity

Well!" said Charlotte, and she meant to say something more, something clever, something brave, but she simply had not been prepared to stare down an army of frogs today.

His fear made her stronger; she could be brave for both of them.

Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing

12. Suffering of any kind is and shall be considered - contraband.

He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears. The

They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.

A sorrow is a resourceful beast.

Children must practice disappointment when they are young, so that when they are grown, it will not go so hard with them.

Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.

Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls.

Running away from a problem never helps. At some point it has to be confronted and dealt with.

You just get on with it and take each day as it comes. I always made sure I found one good thing in each day. It didn't matter how small it was as long as it was good and made me happy.

Life is full of 'ifs,' Robert. What is important is what we do with what is.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.

I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path

Geraldine Brooks

there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to do the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way.