Quotes About Adversity

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies...

Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

After trauma, any way that a person can find to pick themselves up and become a new and better version of themselves makes them stronger.

Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.

It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

Like after a prairie fire...It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow....People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

It will be all right, she told herself, and she stepped out of the boat into the water.

it seemed the sanest and most logical course: if the world was on fire, you might as well burn bright.

Like after a prairie fire. I saw one, years ago, when we were in Nebraska. It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow." She held Izzy at arm's length, wiped her cheek with a fingertip, smoothed her hair one last time. "People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

She had learned, with Izzy's birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then,

how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

She's going to get through this. Because she has to.

The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow." She held Izzy at arm's length, wiped her cheek with a fingertip, smoothed her hair one last time. "People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way." Izzy nodded and turned to go, then turned back. "Tell her I'm so sorry," she said. Mia nodded. "See you tomorrow, okay?

Sometimes, just when you think everything is gone, you find a way.

Sometimes, just when you think everything's gone, you find a way." Mia racked her mind for an explanation. "Like after a prairie fire. I saw one, years ago, when we were in Nebraska. It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.

Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.

She glanced at her brothers, at her mother, still in her bathrobe on their tree lawn, and thought, They have literally nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Maybe sometimes, she thought, the bird with its head held high took flight. Maybe sometimes, the nail that stuck up pierced the foot that stomped down.

the world was on fire, you might as well burn bright. Late nights

Anna Akhmatova