Quotes About Adversity

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

What can't be helped must be endured.

What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.

you're too pretty for your own good, maybe. It could get you an early start on a miserable life.

A hood is far from an ideal garment to wear in a fistfight.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

We spend our lives trying to fill the empty places in our souls that lobe never got to, where there wasn't enough water to reach our roots; its those deficits that often have the biggest impacts on us and that shape us the most. Whatever the void created in those early formative years, I think it's part of who I became as an adult

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, Battles are lost in the same spirit In which they are won

This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.

Funnily enough, Paul was in his work because he liked people. He'd seen the CIA take such incredible shit over the years and save so many damn lives. The Company could not defend herself, not without giving away secrets she was bound to keep. So she just took it. He'd seen the effects of all the Company bashing in his own life.

On July 13, 1925, Walt and Lillian were married. They spent their honeymoon at Mount Rainier. On their wedding night, Walt had such a bad toothache that he couldn't sleep. To take his mind off the pain, he left their room and helped a porter shine shoes all night. The next morning he went to a dentist and had his tooth pulled. It certainly wasn't the most fun way to start off a marriage. But Walt had a good story to tell.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Candella Rautenbach.

Aboli went on.

This was a man, tall and broad-shouldered, forged like steel in the furnace of life.

attempt to escape

Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.

toughening-up process