Quotes About Adversity

An Ax was raised into the smoke filled sky while the surrounding soldiers pinned him down and stood on his hands. It took more than a dozen blows to sever each arm just below the elbows. The strangest sensation, he said, was that one minute he could feel his knuckles being ground into the asphalt by the soldier's boot and in the next he watched the man kick his arm away and he felt nothing.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

I want you to gain power over what happened to you instead of letting it have power over you.

Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.

a few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

Victory is sweet, but how you handle yourself in defeat is often more telling.

You get them to the main gate, don't stop until you're outside," Bell tells her, then turns, directing his words at the others. "You understand? All of you, follow Lilac. Follow Lilac. Don't stop. Run." "Lily runs," the girl says softly. "Lilac dances." "Not today," Lilac says. "Today, we run so fast that Lily won't believe it when we tell her. Right?" The girl nods, wide-eyed.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

It has nothing to do with rough or gentle. Privileged or broke, everyone has their own path to the light. Sometimes those of us who came up hard are forced to see what actually matters. If we survive, that is. The world doesn't allow us not to see. We are forced into understanding, into grace. It's either that or prison, or drugs, or the cold, hard earth.

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.

What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us.

It brought Duran back to his childhood, where he'd seen a lot of things kids weren't meant to see and some stuff beyond that. It had been like a tour of duty, his childhood, a state of mind to be endured. His senses had been alive then, that was for sure. So much unrealized potential, so many dreams of who he could be and what he'd do when he got there.

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

Evan sits on the floor, hard; the collective wisdom of four cultures distilled into a single ass kicking.

The things you learn growing up in and out of prison, Allander thought. A practical education.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional...Let me know when you're ready to start giving it up.

I guess that's the challenge, huh?" Travers said, continuing to flip through the notebook.

It's fine, Mr. Marlow. I'm used to it. About twenty years of people looking at me with . . . with those eyes. 'From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept a hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death,' " she said in a purposefully deepened and dramatic voice. She was speaking loudly, louder than Jade had heard her speak before.

I know how to handle stress better than that. Things have been good long enough that I forgot what it's like to be graceful when they're not.

You know, my dear, you're wrong that suffering ennobles people.... It simply makes one cross.

Social laws acted and people were maimed, damaged, robbed, and strangled by forces they could not even glimpse. People were driven to sickness, to desperation, to loneliness and fear and remorse. Shaken by tears and longing, in a world they fundamentally failed to fathom, they nonetheless carried on. There was

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?