Quotes About Adversity

They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.

Just as a lump of coal, under pressure, could become a diamond bit, Theo had learned to turn his anger into something he could use.

Jarret interrupted. "Colonel Bruce, you must be aware of the rising difficulty for men like me in the thoroughbred world. You must know that for some who supported the Southern cause, the war is not over. They deplore their reduced circumstances and do not care to see someone like me

who would fight the wind if it came from the west when he wanted it from the east.

And he'd grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself.

wealth and connection are no shield against Plague.

Geraldine Brooks

I understood that where Michael Mompellion had been broken by our shared ordeal, in equal measure I had been tempered and made strong.

Fear took each of us differently.

Geraldine Brooks

The translucent skin rattled softly in the hot wind. Maybe this season was his shedding. He closed his sore hand around another bole and stuffed it in his sack. He resolved that he would make it so. He would leave the boy behind, discarded in the dust of this damnable field. He didn't know how, but he had to find a way. He would go on in the world as a man.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

These things happen. It is not the end of the world.

Why wouldst thou rude on me they wring-world right foot rock?

Het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.

Het was verschrikkelijk, zeker, maar er was al zoveel verschrikkelijks in mijn leven gebeurd dat ik - hoe, dat zoude wel altijd een raadsel blijven - had overleefd en doorstaan... Misschien kon dit er nog net bij...

He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.