Quotes About Adversity

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Even when you can't do or say anything to change a difficult situation, you always have a say in your perspective of what's happening, which ultimately influences your feelings about it.

Hard times of any kind—financial, familial, or job-related—create more intense and often prolonged negative emotions that ultimately result in stress. In addition to the physical costs of stress, such as weight gain and heart disease, stress also taxes our mental resources.

Learning to live with wounded places is a mission threaded with find¬ing and making beauty. If I'm open to the likelihood of it, I can always find beauty under any circumstances, whether it's in a kindly gesture from a stranger or the first shoot of greenery shoving up through the waste of a calamitous event. Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key.

Milligan, having found nothing else to throw, had thrown himself.

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Children often get angry when they face situations they can't control.

I went into isometrics training and looked at that. And she's pushing against the immovable. That has a lot of meaning for me. That you have to push against the immovable. You have to push. Even if you haven't got a prayer of moving it. Because even if you don't move it, you'll change yourself. You'll change something. Something will break open. That's where my heart is on that one.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

would be more open to understanding that all fights were not to be won but sometimes merely a lesson to be learned.

Do not ask God to make your life easier. Instead, ask him to make you a stronger person in every aspect so that you can handle anything life throws at you.

Sometimes adversity or pain may derail you, but never allow them to defeat you. Instead, let them be your drive towards a great story of triumph.

Can be optimistic only if you limit worry to things you can change.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats) Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats) Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats) "Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats) So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Suffering does amazing things to people, they become very different in a very short period of time, in many cases, they get a lot wiser an alot braver and become very much more worth listening to.

Maybe, maybe we can survive together, no matter what they want to do to us out there. They don't know that their world is fake and ours is real.