Quotes About Adversity

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ? Denis Waitley

sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.

Just when you think something can't get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

How we understand our problems has an effect on how we cope.

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took

What molds us is what maims us.

scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

We all have our crosses to bear.

Brendan Harris loved everyone now because he loved Katie and Katie loved him. Brendan loved traffic and smog and the sound of jackhammers. He loved his worthless old man who hadn't sent him a single birthday or Christmas card since he'd walked out on Brendan and his mother when Brendan was six. He loved Monday mornings, sitcoms that couldn't make a retard laugh, and standing in line at the RMV. He even loved his job, though he wouldn't be going in ever again.

And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

Dennis Lehane

Teddy wished that his mother were still alive so she could teach her grandkids you had to get hard, strong. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took.

La cálida mano de Angie se cerraba en torno a la mía mientras dábamos media vuelta y, esquivando los escombros, seguíamos el camino de la brisa en dirección a nuestra parte de la ciudad.

It's been a complicated decade for me.

Shit happens. It is what it is. Whatta ya gonna do.

Dennis Lehane

have been this other one they call Spartak.

For every solution, a problem.

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Everyone has been wounded. It is almost inevitable that our parents will wound us in some way. If we are not wounded by our parents, we may be wounded by the death or illness of a parent or sibling, by a bitter marriage or bitter divorce, or if our immediate family is close to idyllic, we might be wounded by some other adult who abuses us or peers who mock us. An unscarred childhood is possible but very rare.

One day, however, the thought occurred to me that being unhappy was easy—in fact, the easy way out—and that it took no courage, effort, or greatness to be unhappy. Anyone could be unhappy.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.