Quotes About Adversity

We find hope where we can, and where we cannot, invent it.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

But then, crying when you need to cry is another way to show strength.

Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.

Clay Susan Griffith

Necessity remains the mother of invention.

As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

The very processes and values that constitute an organization's capabilities in one context, define its disabilities in another context.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.

So much hate to go around, it's hard not to hate back. Much harder than learning to fight back.

Survive everything. And do it with style.

Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.

Survive everything. And do it with style. ~ Cleo Coyle

All things are hard, it said. There is nothing easy.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

I'm not afraid, he said. What's the use of fear? You can't buy it or sell it, you can't make love to it. You can't even wear it if they strip off your shirt and you're cold.

This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.

es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.

but she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.

La oscuridad también ha de desempeñar un papel. Sin ella, ¿cómo sabríamos que caminamos por la senda de la luz? Solamente cuando sus pretensiones se crecen debemos enfrentarnos a ella, domarla y a veces –llegado el caso- someterla durante un tiempo. Después se erguirá de nuevo, como debe ser.

A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.

Hold on,' he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn't holding anything at all, but guessing that 'hang in there' would have had a terrible ring to it.

through the door and immediately realized their luck was about to run out. Linda mumbled a curse in their ears