Quotes About Adversity

Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.

The road to hell is strewn with roses.

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

If life throws stones at you, crush them and throw back glitter.

When all else fails, sprinkle glitter on it.

Screw up the vise as tightly as possible — you have rheumatism; give it another turn, and that is gout.

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

I have been for a long time dreadfully ill. I am getting better, however, although slowly, and shall get well. In the meantime the flocks of little birds of prey that always take the opportunity of illness to peck at a sick fowl of larger dimensions, have been endeavoring with all their power to effect my ruin.

if we never stretch we snap like a brittle twig and that's true both physically and mentally

Sometimes what gets to you most isn't the large holes that get ripped from your heart but the fraying of its edges — when what held you together isn't anymore.

No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Hope is warmth against the cold winter of adversity.

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

...you sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

Now, you red-eyed devil, he said

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind the later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug

Quando há mais homens que trabalho, todos os que sobram são relegados para o contingente dos incapazes e como tal ficam condenados a uma destruição penosa e progressiva.

All de tam I watch dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an' den heem chew dat Spitz all up an' spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know." From then on it was war between them. Spitz

did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang. In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.