Quotes About Adversity

MURPHY'S SATURN HAD gotten a little blown up a couple of years back

We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.

Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.

Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

It's our common enemy, though it isn't, really, an enemy. Pain is, at least when our bodies are working properly, a teacher. A really tough, really strict, and perfectly fair teacher.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer.

When you have a problem, you have a problem," I said thoughtfully. I nodded at Cristos. "When you have two problems, sometimes one of them is a solution in disguise.

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

The position must have been excruciating—it isn't every day that you get crucified and hung up as dinner for a monster, and you can't really train your muscles for it.

The damnedest thing was that there wasn't much I could do about it. Not because I was chained up, held at gunpoint, and probably going to die—though I had to admit, that might make things somewhat difficult

They didn't want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it.

I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining

I have fought long and hard against horrors even you would respect. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.

They're just itching for me to lead them in some meaningful crusade against evil. Hell, I have trouble just paying the bills.

But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Trials and half a dozen smaller

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

Don't worry," Michael said, quietly. "Just let me do the talking." Chapter Seven Michael rested his chin in his hands and sighed. "I can't believe we're in jail.

Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.