Quotes About Adversity

They'd never know how confusion and cruelty change people, make them hard—the way the deepest cuts make the toughest scabs.

I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.

And yet, what else could he do but try the next

la Delfina se cayó al suelo cuando montaba sobre un asno, dijo riendo: Id a buscar a madame Noailles, ella os dirá que ordena la etiqueta cuando una reina de Francia no sabe mantener el equilibrio sobre un asno. María Antonieta, Reina de Francia

En la desgracia descubres tu auténtica naturaleza

La desgracia no mata. Eugenia de Montijo

los que la desgracia les ha unido aún más,

No hay vidas livianas. Todas son difíciles de llevar.

The things that we mortals see as setbacks are, in truth, simply God's way of redirecting our paths toward Him. And what sometimes seems to be a terrible setback (to us) can always be transformed into a great victory (for Him). After all, no problem is too big for God. Criswell Freeman (the man who helped me write this book)

Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.

Return me to that bitch?" I shouted to the sky. "Fuck you! I can take care of myself!

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park.

If there was a free-floating feeling, I took it on and tried to work it out.

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear—and how to keep going even when that fear rose like a howling beast inside.

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear—and how to keep going even when that

You have to fight to live.

Afraid that he'd be like one of those horrible movie monsters that just rose again and again and kept attacking until everyone else was dead. "Ava!

Danton himself was an astonishing man, with a face so scarred and ugly that it by-passed the normal rules of beauty and had an attractiveness of its own. At two he had been gored in the face by a cow, trampled by a herd of pigs at five, disfigured by small pox when he was ten, and kicked in the face by a bull when he was fourteen.

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.