Quotes About Adversity

People told me that if I ignored you, if I pretended that you didn't bother me, you'd eventually give up and move on to the next victim. So why didn't that ever happen?

whose grandmotherly advice was, "Fuck the bastards,

There's a fork in the road. It seems like there are only two choices. It seems like the task is to figure out which way to go, left or right, forward or back, deeper or safer, but in fact any of those choices is easy compared to the real trick. The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.

Grass stain?" "Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it." – Sarah Mahoney

Getting up and putting on your shoes after a disaster is a badge of honor." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

True healing is when you somehow transform the nature of how you perceive what you have gone through." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.

Humility—the first gift—can help us surrender to an event outside our control, one we couldn't prevent and was not our fault

Our capacity to disregard and discount viscerally painful experiences is so ingrained that we have come to believe that "moving forward" means not allowing ourselves to be moved at all.

Like breaking a leg, a serious injury to the psyche often gets us benched while the regular game of life goes on. It may seem strange that forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

Practice in the art of swiping away whatever we don't want to face leaves us ill prepared to face tragic events in our own lives.

but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

The world's not perfect, tomboy. Sometimes we have fires and fistfights and lose friends.

Wildlife can absorb adversity that would destroy a human without a blink.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.