Quotes About Adversity

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.

A brave arm makes a short sword long enough.

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Hard times require furious dancing.

If life is good, don't just sit there — dance! If life's not so good — dance even more.

We take a step, then we stumble. The joy in life comes when we make a dance out of both.

Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.

Borrowing is the mother of trouble.

But let not our thoughts be only of happiness. For does not the old Arab proverb — "all sunshine makes a desert" — faithfully remind us that the cloud and the storm are likewise needed for the most complete and satisfactory results?

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.

Let your sorrow smile once in a while.

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.

Kimberly: You know what they say about uphill battles. Michael: You can't talk while you're waging them?

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.

Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Fear and courage are brothers.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Fibromyalgia, you slow me down but you ain't stoppin' me!

Sometimes "I'm fine" just means "I have the strength to carry on."