Quotes About Adversity

That was one thing you could say for a life of complications: it made for good stories, though someone had always suffered for them.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!

It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

There's no controlling what Fate hands you...and in my experience, it rarely seem to give you exactly what you need at the exact moment you need it. ...Just remember this, it's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are

Just remember this. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

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Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.

God can use bad events for His glory, but that doesn't mean He's behind them.

You reminded me that I can't spend my life waiting for this to be over. I have to find out how to live in the middle of it.

Her daughter is dead and her mother is dead and her husband lives with a woman who is nicer than her in a hundred different ways. But she is OK.

I listened to your podcast this summer. Basic bitch? Really? I've been under attack all my life, Alix. All my life. And now from you too.

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

If the hero hasn't turned up, you may have to settle for the villain." "If the villain's the one who turns up, he is the hero.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

Sometimes when you're making the best of a situation, it turns out far better than you could have hoped for.

The enemies of our people have chosen the moment when I am knocked off my feet with sickness to stab me in the back because they know what the territorial integrity, national unity and the dignity of this great Zaire mean to me. I have devoted my life to defending these sacred values.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.

I spoke with Van Gaal, and he said that I only had a one per cent chance of playing in my position, so I headed to Bayer.