Quotes About Adversity

People should know when they are conquered, OJ used to say when he would pin me to the floor and tickle me until I couldn't tell whether I was laughing or crying. There is nothing you can do, give it up, it's easier that way, OJ would say. You can't win, so just let go, he said once when I said I wanted to punch my father in the face.

Life is hard enough to be easy

Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Vanhala epäröi hetkisen. Sitten hän sanoi: – Mutta Suomen sotilas vastaa kymmentä ryssää. Khihi. – Mhiin… Kyllä kai. Mutta mites sitten tehdään, kun tulee se yhdestoista?

Factory windows are always broken.Somebody's always throwing bricks,Somebody's always heaving cinders,Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.

God wants us to walk but the devil sends a limo.

How easy and wonderful it is to live in happy days and how bitter and accursed it is in miserable days! Why can't people save up the one to soften the pain of the other? Why is there always a chasm between the two? Where were you, what games were you playing when your fate was being decided? Why did you let them chop off your wings, without thinking, just when you needed them most, when you need to fly and not crawl from disaster?

Life was life so that it could go on, it could take everything and survive anywhere, even on bare rock or shifting sands, and if necessary, even under water, but why torture it this way for no good reason, creating totally unnecessary difficulties for people, why worry about small conveniences and create major inconveniences?

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

Breaking down does not have to mean reaching a catastrophe.

or even thrown in jail for sneaking onto a freight train! As you read, you decide what happens next by choosing your own path through this multiple-ending story.

Well, the people at the bank won't just kick us out onto the street, will they?" asked Kit. "Yes," said Charlie. "That's exactly what they'll do. You've seen those pictures in the newspapers of whole families and all their belongings out on the street with nowhere to go." "That is not going to happen to us," said Kit fiercely. "It's not." "I hope not," said Charlie.

Charlie grinned a cheerless grin and tapped one finger on Kit's newspaper. "That's your headline, isn't it?" he said. "These days a lot of things happen that aren't fair. There's no one to blame, and there's nothing that can be done about it." Charlie's voice sounded tired, as if he'd grown old all of a sudden. "You better get used to it, Kit. Life's not like books. There's

El conocimiento no es nada si no nos proporciona los medios para afrontar la vida.

Dear God, give me the strength to hold fast to my dreams and the commitment to stop wavering in the face of adversity. Help me establish goals that are in keeping with my values and with Your intentions for my life. Amen.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

I might never be cold again.

No matter what trials or tribulations we go through in life, just go on and praise God anyhow.

And I'm asking, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fall apart or be the woman God created you to be?

Sometimes bad things happen to God's people, but even

in the bad, if we keep praying for God to turn it around in our favor, we will eventually see the good in it.