Quotes About Adversity

This taught me a lesson: there will always be someone smarter, younger, and tougher than you. People who seem to be rewarded more than you. It's important to accept that and focus on your own unique strengths. Otherwise , it will unravel you.

Whatever happens is going to happen. And when I see something bad, I won't dwell on it or get emotional about it because there's too much shit going on, and I have a job to do.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Book Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

and, now, The Perfect Storm, life on The Lost had always been extremely

wondered at the human brain's ability to seize on some terrible personal event and let that event define and control every action for years, decades, even lifetimes.

it's pretty hard for a bully to give you a triple nipple cripple if he's doubled over

That's my defense mechanism—do the best job I can and move on.

because after Jacobi and I got shot on Larkin

As the wars and natural disasters fall upon one another like a hard rain, they get buried in the quickly overlapping layers of mud in our shitty memories.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle!

Zig when the world expects you to zag

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

We had two terms of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, we have these people that are afraid, and they always try to roll us back, but they can never roll us back as much as we go forward.

Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly.

I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.