Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

Q: What's hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

Nine lives and counting.

Some people say that you should fight fire with fire but I say you should fight fire with water.

The true character of a person is revealed under pressure.

They say keep looking up, things could get worse. So I kept looking up and sure enough things got worse.

Today's not my day . . . tomorrows not looking any better.

I suppose if you're scared enough, you're capable of doing anything.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Dwelling on your problems doesn't fix them; it just makes you an expert at them.

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

She wasn't meant for these scenes, wasn't meant to be sitting up there in the Southwest Community Infirmary with her ass out, in the middle of the day, and strangers cluttering up the treatment room, ogling her in her misery. She wasn't meant for any of it. But then M'Dear Sophie always said, "Find meaning where you're put, Vee." So she exhaled deeply and tried to relax and stick it out and pay attention.

a day without a disaster would be a day in someone else's life. - Bobbie Faye

I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.

You took nothing from me.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Kinnock was dead.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.