Quotes About Adversity

The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the strength to "resist the temptations of the Evil One, who is all the more ready to fish...in troubled waters.

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.

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WE'RE the ones who make things happen. and when crappy things happen anyway, WE choose how to respond.

I'm aware of the incredible elasticity of life, how the buckled can become straight, the broken mended. Watch what is on the ground; watch what you step on, for it could contain hidden powers and, in a rage, fly up all emerald and scarlet to sting your face.

Lauren St. John

Sometimes we must all fall out of a tree.

Lauren Tarshis

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There would be more storms ahead, John knew. But somehow they'd all made it through the blizzard. Whatever was coming, they would face it. Maybe that's what it meant to be a pioneer.

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

forcing Magellan to seek shelter. He ordered the fleet to reverse course

They had no longboat, no firewood, and scant clothing.

Laurence Bergreen

Preparations for the voyage continued, but the flag incident served as a warning to Magellan that his men

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

Laurence Bergreen

When he was done, he wiped himself with a length of pitch-covered rope, and then

The hapless accountant Antonio de Coca was merely deprived of his rank.

After six months at sea, Magellan's ability to lead the armada was still in grave doubt.

Even young relatives of Magellan found themselves the object of derision and were stoned.