Quotes About Adversity

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!

Wendelin Van Draanen

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day. That's how anybody makes it through anything

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compared to the one in my heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

It's easy to find our better selves in the sunshine of prosperity. What we must remember is to not lose those selves during times of hardship.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

What can't be helped must be endured.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

We've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

If it wasn't one thing it was another, and it never mattered which. Always something to run away from, no matter what, no matter why, as though you'd been born with a consciousness of guilt and would find that thing to feel guilty about regardless.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.