Quotes About Adversity

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?

I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

You get through it, you just never get over it

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.

you never forget your first fall.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.