Quotes About Adversity

When life knocks you down," she said to Lanie after getting yelled at by a very rude customer, "calmly get back up, smile, and very politely say 'You hit like a bitch, bitch.

I'm tougher than this." He shook his head. "Somehow it doesn't matter how tough you are. You can be tough as hell and still be leveled flat without warning." She looked at him. "What do you do when you're leveled flat?" "You make a plan, you move on that plan, and you keep breathing

Because if she had to be off-track and a little lost, then she was going to have fun while she was at it, dammit.

She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Chloe Traeger

Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment." TARA DANIELS

We're all angels," Elle, another bridesmaid, said. "And when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick.

What does a sign on an out-of-business brothel say?" He beamed. "Beat it, we're closed.

She swiped at her eyes. "Suck it up," she whispered fiercely to herself. "It's all good, no matter how hard it is." "I'm going to refrain from saying 'That's what she said' since you seem to be having a moment.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Ignore it.

SonOfAMotherlessGoat

What's happened is a part of you now. Doesn't mean you have to take it seriously all the time. Joking is healthier than not dealing.

Mothertrucker

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

After that, he'd turned to fighting, and not the good kind either. Finn, physically older by seven years, mentally older by about a hundred, had single-handedly saved Sean from just about every situation he'd ever landed himself in.

SonOfABumblebee

it's the mark of a man how he handles hardship, not what he does for a living.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.