Quotes About Adversity

Fear is the universal primal response to suffering. And yet beyond doubt it is also the single greatest "enemy of recovery.

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering.

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?

La vida es difícil».

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you're healthy.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

I will learn to smile at my enemies.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.

We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.

She smiled an empty bitter smile that did not reach her eyes, 'Do you think it can be worse than this? I cannot be charged with treason, I am the Queen of England, I am England. I cannot be divorced, I am the wife of the King. He has run mad this spring and he will recover by autumn. And all I have to do is get through this summer.' 'The Boleyn summer,' I said.

Joan was a young woman who tried to walk her own path in the world of men, just as my great-aunt told me. And it led to this cold tower, this swan dive, this death.

That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose—I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.

She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.

It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.

You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.

We all want triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference.

But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets—we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.

They are girls to whom things happen, and they take it hard. But I bear myself as more than a silly girl. I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.