Quotes About Adversity

Life has a nasty way of being increasingly unfair.

Heather Brewer

speak. But he lost his job, he was so ill so often

There were you and Serena, and everything about the two of you was perfect, and so life took a brutal swing at you.

Watch it, Callie. The war has taught me lots of nasty habits. When I'm attacked, I attack back.

lately. It's a bitch, huh?" "Yeah, it's a bitch.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Evil doesn't just go away.

I think about the problem with running from your trouble . The problem is in the stopping. The whole time you think you're getting away from everything, the trouble is running like mad, too, trying to catch up with you. And it doesn't slow down when you do--it keeps on sprinting. So when trouble finally reaches you, it hits you hard (p107)

When you're at rock bottom, strap on a different pair of boots and start climbing - The New Mrs D

On the contrary, that someone as weak and

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression.

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Another trembling leaf, eh? Well, it happens. She'll get over it." Sergeant Marge isn't exactly the warm and fuzzy type.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

Things are never as bad as they seem. —Miss Maudie, To Kill a Mockingbird

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. —The Wizard of Oz

Just when we think we've figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. —Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.