Quotes About Adversity

Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.

PEOPLE ARE LIKE TEA BAGS—YOU HAVE TO DROP THEM IN HOT WATER BEFORE YOU KNOW HOW STRONG THEY ARE.

Each one of us hauled rocks on our backs, some larger than others, I realized. Some people had grown so accustomed to the extra weight that they no longer seemed aware of the baggage.

Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.

Just remember, you are fighting a woman who is in the dime-a-dozen class. They are everywhere, ready to steal away the heart of the man who feels uncared for and unappreciated. The tool of your warfare is your loving, kind, delightful, radiant, adoring self.

If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it.

As the old French proverb warns: "He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.

I recognized that I was small and soft; I wanted to believe in people - that they were kind and good, and given the chance, everything would turn out okay - but bad things do happen, and sometimes the best you can do is swim through them, focus, and years later say, Ya, I know that feeling, when some smart ass asks whether you've ever been so scared you wanted to pee your pants.

You were kidnapped not? I was kidnapped. You were forced not into marriage? I was forced into marriage. You want not an annulment? I want not an annulment.

what we want to believe about life: that good comes of bad and all the absurdities play out in your favor.

Life unaffected by the blows of Fortune is a dead sea

And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time? No wonder they call me Fuckhead. It's a name that's going to stick.

If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.

Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.

I worked on a peak outside Bisbee, Arizona, where we were only eleven or twelve miles from the sun. It was a hundred and sixteen degrees on the thermometer, and every degree was a foot long. And that was in the shade. And there weren't no shade.

He saw no sign of their Bible, either. If the Lord had failed to protect even the book of his own Word, this proved to Granier that here had come a fire stronger than God.