Quotes About Adversity

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.

I seen nights full of pain, days of the same.

I am the only fire that can live in the rain.

Victory consistently, train all year to be the enemys misery. No stress visibly, neither does it enter me.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower.

They said I couldnt play football I was too small. They said I couldnt play basketball I wasnt tall. They said I couldnt play baseball at all. And now everyday of my life I ball.

I been thru it all, the fails the falls, Im like niagra but I got right back up like viagra.

You can love me or hate me I swear it wont make me or break me.

Hater, hater, hater I love you so much.

Lilith Saintcrow

Lilith Saintcrow

It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing.

I'd rather get eaten by an epileptic shark.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.

I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, the ballad went on in my head. Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Totisesti on olemassa hetkiä, jolloin elämä on meille liian suurta, jolloin kaikki tyynni on liitossa meitä vastaan pettääkseen ja tuhotakseen toiveemme; silloin ihminen on kuin kulkija, joka on metsässä kadottanut suuntamerkit tai joutunut maanalaiseen luolaan, missä törmää kivimuuriin, kääntyipä minne hyvänsä.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

I take it these people have some sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it, and thus it escapes.