Quotes About Adversity

All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives.

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

Resilience isn't just key to happiness; it's key to success.

Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

reframe them as "challenges." The more problems we solve the more we expand and grow ourselves; adopt the belief that "resistance makes you stronger".

Triumph in the face of adversity

Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you true north from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp, what's the use of knowing true north?

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world..

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Will humanity survive?

Dios escribe derecho con renglones torcidos.

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!

Luultavasti myrskyjä onkin vain siksi, että niiden jälkeen saataisiin auringonnousu.