Quotes About Adversity

Someday this pain will be useful to you

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

ingenium mala saepe movent

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

It seemed to us as if fate was wholly relentless, in pursuing us with such a cruel complication of disasters.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

My father always said I would do something big one day. 'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

You learn who your friends are when the shit hits the fan.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique. -Zoey

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

Well, this should certainly teach us, should it not, never to repine, never to despair, never to allow the upper lip to unstiffen, but always to remember that, no matter how dark the skies may be, the sun is shining somewhere and will eventually come smiling through.

Trouble sharpens the vision.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Get thee behind me, Satan!

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

The world falling apart isn't an excuse to take up bad habits...

What was the old saying? If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you problems .

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up! shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.