Quotes About Adversity

This is a miserable world, says the Sergeant. Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. When

Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.

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When things are at the worst, they're sure to mend. Things can't be much worse, Mr. Franklin, than they are now.

To hate is to acknowledge our inferiority and our fear; we do not hate a foe whom we are confident we can overcome.

If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war.

Religion does not prosper under prosperity;

My formula for greatness is Amor fati: . . . not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.   Anais Nin

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.

Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath sing the honey bees.

What did Shakespeare say? When sorrows come, they come not as single spies – " "— But in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies – " "— But in battalions.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." Isaac Asimov

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

perception – I was the wrong guy in the wrong place, so it was no surprise that my troubles multiplied.

So most of my life has been lived in hell.

The Hurricane The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.