Quotes About Adversity

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

She has been left to her own devices, and those are broken.

Oh, honey, she says when I'm done with my wallowing, it's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen. I am not cheered up.

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

There are those moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Love means never having to lose your limbs.

I don't mean that God made this happen to teach us something. Or to teach me something. How monstrously selfish would that be? I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

How alone am I right now? Even my car has decided to give up on me.

Life fails. Songs don't always.

I WILL BE A BETTER PERSON. I know it's hard to believe. From me. From the bitch who got pummeled with an orange tray. But I knew - I hadn't become the worst kind of person yeat. I had to believe that. [...] Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

Dash is the kind of guy who's always had to

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

Niet krijgen wat je wilt kan je wreed maken.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed

but if you keep focusing on why you have it so bad, you'll never realize how you could have it so good.

If we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?

I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.

Because this is only going to get worse," she said. "So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it." "Get on with what?" "Life. In all its bittersweet glory.

Answerless questions can destroy. Move on. - A

This is why we love stories, and love them from an early age: Nothing bad ever lasts in stories. And this is ultimately why we love life, too--because nothing bad ever lasts in life, not with the same intensity with which it initially appears. If we pay attention, stories can teach us that.