Quotes About Adversity

What happens outside of us doesn't count. That's something we don't have control over. It's what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that's important.

No matter how you cut it, I was back to the short form of the Serenity Prayer, known in AA and other recovery groups as Fuck It.

It's strange how people bloom, even in poisonous soil, once they allow themselves to become what they've always been.

and sometimes throwing your own

You've got a lot of anger in you, son," he said. "Don't let it turn on you. It'll flat tear you up.

But as John Steinbeck had said long ago, we had come to fear a man with a hole in his shoe.

never let the naysayers and those who are masters at inculcating self-doubt hold sway in your life.

James Lee Burke

while you're laying off the hooch and working the program, your disease is doing push-ups and waiting for the day you slip. You can ease back into the dirty boogie or hit the floor running, but I promise you, the electric tiger, or your version of it, will come back with a roar.

No, I ain't. I'm shit and nails and all kinds of bad news.

So that's how to the dark tower I came.

You treat loss just like death. It visits everyone and you don't let it prevail in your life.

The usual deal: whatever's going, if it pays, we'll take it. Sorry state of affairs, but that's how it is. Ain't a kind or just 'verse, and nobody's owed a living.

You see how easy it is to go from having everything to having nothing?

His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as "the Tarkin Rush

Challenge is the crucible for greatness. It provides the context in which adversity and vision interact to provide for the creation of something new.

Approaching White Oak Swamp from the north, he sent a crew to rebuild the bridge over the creek. When Union artillery and sharpshooters prevented this, Jackson lay down and took a nap.

In America, as Mr. Dooley once remarked, people build their triumphal arches out of brick so that they will have something handy to throw at the hero when he comes through.

Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn't matter. When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is.

When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is. Soup

We'll be colored when the day's done, no matter how the cut comes or goes.

Ain't no worse thing in the world than fronting up against one of those, for a man with a cause, right or wrong, has got plenty to prove, and will make you suck sorrow if you get in the way of 'em wrongly.

But then, she thought, every once in a while there's a glimmer of hope. Just a blip on the horizon, a whack on the nose of the giant that set him back on his heels or to the canvas, something that said, Guess what, you so-and-so, I am God's child. And I. Am. Still. Here.

You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.