Quotes About Adversity

Siempre hay algo que perder

Plunge a heated sword in oil, and any small flaw will turn in to a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

There are so many broken things that I don't know how to fix. But I know how to fight.

It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes

You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you.

It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That's the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realised I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.

Who we were and what we did and what was done to us - we don't get to shrug that off and become some new shiny person.

Pain makes you strong.

Just when you think you've sunk as far as it's possible to sink, there's always a lower place. There's always something worse to be scared about.

It's milky and fragrant, and only under the water can I allow myself to weep. Only under the water can I admit that I almost died and that I was terrified and that I wish there was someone to whom I could tell all that. I hold my breath until there's no more breath to hold.

If fighting breaks out, focus on what's in front of you. Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

That I had suffered a loss. I thought about the word suffer and about the act or the state of suffering. I thought about enduring. About bearing the burden, about tolerating the pain, about learning to reconcile myself to this new, stark reality.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I'd discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.

And I'd learned that maybe that's what life was all about, one thing after another. One small moment. Good or bad.

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

Holly Jacobs

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Victory shifts from man to man.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Smiling through tears.