Quotes About Adversity

Asl?nda zorluklar?n üstünde fazla düÅŸünmüyorum, çünkü bunlar üstünde gereÄŸinden fazla durdun mu sersemliyorsun ya da iyice bozuluyorsun.

Wat is het moeilijk om het gewone leven weer op te pakken en niet totaal ontmoedigd te raken door de onafwendbaarheid van de ellende

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity"_Page.52

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.

When life gives you lemons, you put the lemons down and go burn down a building." —Unidentified Pyromaniac

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub, the task.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Cowles

Rise to the occassion which is life!

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

One of the people on my Mom's Council, he used to be a boxer. My Mom always says he always says Get up on the 1. You don't want them to count to 2 'cause then it's easy to count 3 while you go on being down. Always Get up on the 1.

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

But my mama says that the only way to live is to fight those fears and do what comes to you. She says if you're not fighting those fears, you're not living.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

fighting one fear after another.

Anyone who goes against the conventions of their time will experience heartache. People fear change, Carrie, and they fight the things they are afraid of.