Quotes About Adversity

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Depression and I are old friends but I do not court his company.

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

them. "Go to hell," she said, and stood up. "Or better yet, go back to Egypt. That godforsaken place is probably hotter and more miserable than hell anyway.

Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful.

generation. They were the little pigs who built their houses of brick, whereas Gerry's peers tended more to straw and wood. And, oh, how people loved to blow them down. Everybody huffs and puffs, intent on destruction. What do they call it now? Cancel culture.

It's one thing to watch someone row; it's quite another to try it oneself in heavy seas, and this was a bad moment to begin wondering if the American privateers on the Good Shepherd would be certain to help her and if there was any chance that Devon might have lied about the Shepherd's identity.

quiet courage. "It's not the courage that allows you to run into a burning building. It's the kind that allows you to accept the unacceptable, bear the unbearable, keep going.

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

Maybe that's what I need to do now, muster up everything that was ever vivísima about me and somehow find a way to stand tall.

porque la vida es de por sí azarosa y dada a jugarnos malas pasadas

Nothing is funny about war. But one must find reasons to laugh anyways, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that" -Sister Bert

There's always a fire.

But one must find reasons to laugh anyway, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that.

That seemed to be the most horrible thing of all, that you could lose something so precious to you, something you loved, and still go on.

Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them.

You can succeed in the future only by facing today's challenges head-on, reframing them as opportunities, and taking advantage of them.

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.