Quotes About Adversity

Pits need to be filled.

the failure will trigger the "flight" instinct

Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun (2004). "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence," Psychological Inquiry 15: 1–18. The researchers have a test of post-traumatic growth, called the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), that you can find online. We also recommend the excellent Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg. Also see:

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.

Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her that is stubborn as a mudfish, Sarojini knows she is right, too. Being loved a little more than necessary arms a girl in a different way.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.

But to whom can she say this? Who will listen to her? The power she possessed even a few days ago, as the Sarkar's favourite queen, has faded.

Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again.

Ludzka godno?? nie ma nic wspólnego z materialnym bogactwem. Zamo?ni ludzie mogÄ… wydawa? mnóstwo pieniÄ™dzy na wyposa?enie domu, ale w ten sposób powstaje jedynie sztuczny luksus. Ludzka godno?? wyrasta z u?ywania wrodzonych zdolnoÅ›ci i u?ywania wÅ'asnych rÄ…k - tu i teraz. Wymaga to zrÄ™cznoÅ›ci i wyczucia piÄ™kna. Nawet w najgorszej sytuacji nasze ?ycie nie musi by? pozbawione elegancji.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.