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Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes the world around you makes you do things you would never do out of the circumstances.
~ Haidji
We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.
~ Unknown
Those who are against you, just let them enjoy their time. Your time will come ten times better than theirs.
~ Unknown
Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab
~ Angelina Jolie
Beauty that arose out of pain.
~ Suzanne Collins
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
~ Herbie Hancock
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
~ Sai Baba
The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.
~ Francesca Lia Block
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
~ Richard Gere
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
~ Patricia Arquette
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
~ Amelia Earhart
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.
~ Paul Madonna
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
~ Gregory Maguire
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
~ Haruki Murakami
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
~ Snoop Dogg
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
~ B. F. Skinner
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
~ Bruce Springsteen