Quotes About Adversity

Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.

if the wrong people are not criticizing you, then you may not be doing the right things!

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

A scar means, I survived.

You have seen trouble too, Sarah. You are making a mistake if you think it is unusual. I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

If the war had proved anything it was that life had unexpected resistance to the instruments with which men had been issued. Simonson

Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

Then I'm tempted to die just to … spite him." "That's the spirit that will win us the war.

Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

There was less of him now. There was less of them all. Officers and men dragged themselves around in uniforms three sizes too big, new holes punched into every belt, every collar hanging loose. They were a garrison of skinny boys performing a play about soldiers.

How could he even attempt it, after eight days and nights of bombing? And yet this is when he must write: now, in the lull between attacks...War made one do everything when one wasn't at all ready. Dying, yes, but also living.

The idea that Sophie could die had always been there, ever since the first diagnosis, and yet it seemed like a bad place on a map, an Ivory Coast, somewhere not urgently frightening because fear itself kept you away from the place. You thought of it as somewhere braver people went, or at least as somewhere you'd have plenty of time to pack your bags for.