Quotes About Adversity

That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention.

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.

You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.

I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place...

And one thing experience has taught me is that life can hammer you hard just when everything seems to be so fine, but life can also drop the most amazing moments of grace on you just when you thought nothing good would ever happen again.

Loss is the hardest thing," I said. "But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.

I'd settle for just getting my head above the shit line before I drown.

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing

He can't endure being powerless. He cannot tolerate it.

Everyone is damaged, but the heart can be repaired.

Saffron "Sunny" Ketterling

She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.

Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.

She isn't a survivalist, but she intends to survive.

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

Boris Sergetov

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.