Quotes About Adversity

FEAR is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited.

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

An intellectual crisis is such an invigorating walk in a freezing rain!

We're in some real pretty shit now man! game over, game over.

Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the

It seemed as though most of the cats that we'd come up with just hadn't made it," he says. "Almost everybody was dead or in jail." Many young Black men in our generation can say the same thing. Drugs, oppression, and despair take their toll. Survival is not a simple matter or something to be taken for granted.

You can always tell youre in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

I don't know how one can endure all the sorrows of life without repairing to gratitude. There is such inevitable grief that the practice of gratitude is all that can provide the necessary armor.

Nurturing gratitude is preparation for the worst of days, the building of a compass that will be necessary to get back to life after the deep sorrow abates.

I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand, but when you've had to play chess twice a day with a monosyllabic West Ham supporter, who has 'HATE' tattooed on one hand, and 'HATE' on the other - using a set missing six pawns, all the rooks and two of the bishops - you find yourself cherishing the little things in life. Like not being in prison.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

How we respond in the face of a challenge tells us more about who we really are than all the pious rhetoric about our alleged attitudes, values or aspirations. [p37]

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

No one who is a friend of Pakistan must say anything that harms its reputation; anyone who dares to ask tough questions or make adverse remarks must be prepared to be categorized as Pakistan's enemy.