Quotes About Adversity

I guess the real question is, Why not me? Why did I think I was going to get through this life without sorrow, pain, or grief?

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.

Sometimes things go wrong, no matter how careful you are.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps," he said. "I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn't exactly looking for a taste experience," said Corell. "Man always tries to limit his suffering.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

When everything else is gone you'll still have the French Quarter, cockroaches and Cher.

Life is full of misery and hardship, so grab your pleasures where you can.

You are but a hard turd in the ass of my journey.

There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.

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If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

To-day, the 27th April, 1873, he seems to have been almost dying. No entry at all was made in his diary after that which follows, and it must have taxed him to the utmost to write:— "Knocked up quite, and remain—recover—sent to buy milch goats. We are on the banks of the Molilamo." They are the last words that David Livingstone wrote.

We saw what a train of Indian Sepoys, Johanna men, Nassick boys, and Shupanga canoemen, accompanied Dr. Livingstone when he started from Zanzibar in 1866 to enter upon his last discoveries: of all these, five only could answer to the roll-call as they handed over the dead body of their leader to his countrymen on the shore whither they had returned, and this after eight years' desperate service.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn't handle.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.