Quotes About Adversity

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

Despite their poverty, their tragic pasts, their own sorrows, they stood before her in strength and spoke with a wisdom that defied their circumstances.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.

The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole

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Bono had grown up in a lower-class neighborhood with a "constant sense that violence was around the corner." His mother and grandfather died within days of each other, and he and his brother were raised by his father, "a house of men, and all that goes with that.

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

Jos ei osaa laskea, elämässä käy köpelösti.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Winston Churchill's corresponding quip was "Never let a good crisis go to waste!" A

the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity.

my own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery.

It isn't what happens its how you deal with it.

Shisha ke maida shod, tiztar misha,' runs a Haz?ra proverb: broken glass becomes sharper.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

It wasn't going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad —

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the journey starts NOW.

That's the point about failure," I said. "It's an intrinsic part of success. You win some, then you lose some. But with experience and luck, you learn to lose less as the years go on.

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.

Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

The only time we get to fight the powers of darkness is during one of the kingdom's frequent power cuts