Quotes About Adversity

The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

A well-managed breakdown can turn out to be a good thing," he told Yao. "Try to see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to grow and learn about yourself.

But the memory stayed, clinging to the walls of her mind like a slimy black leech.

You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind.

filling her pockets with rocks before she waded out into life.

did not,' said Stan. 'I never said he lied. I told him it was an unfortunate reality of the game. I told him he would sometimes face kids who made bad calls and that he shouldn't focus on his opponent but on his own game.

This can happen to anyone.

They probably felt like it was the end of the world. But it turned out to be the making of them. The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

now her voice was loud and clear. "This can happen to anyone.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo.

Eso es: soy un albaricoque reseco, doctor Hodges. No un albaricoque tierno, suave y sabroso, sino un albaricoque mustio, duro e insípido, que te parte un diente cuando le das un bocado.

I'm only temporarily tragic, she told herself

You know, Madison, people are going to say mean things to you all through your life, and if you keep reacting like that, you're going to end up in jail.

She combines them all into one giant sumo wrestler of humanity and punches him again and again in his big flabby stomach.

People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight.

No kid was going to go to school in a place that looked like freaking Buckingham Palace and come out of it resilient.

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose.

Unimaginable things happened every single day and there wasn't always a good reason.

Other people's problems always seemed so surmountable, and other people's children so much more biddable.

There's a difference between heartbroken and damaged," said Ed. "You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren't broken.

It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu.

They should move gingerly through their days, as if they had spinal cord injuries.