Quotes About Adversity

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

A chronic headache muttered in her temples, but like Barrett said, no one ever died from pain. True, but some days you didn't much enjoy living either.

How could you get past a splinter that had worked into your eye and scratched deeper every time you blinked?

But just because you have a bad season doesn't mean you stop planting.

The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

Een overlevingsstrategie die de morele grondvesten ondermijnt zou ik niet 'overleven' noemen maar 'zelfvernietiging', de aanvaarding van destructieve krachten.

Onze tijd is niet gunstig voor het behoud van het individu.

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Let me see no more of my harsh fate: this useless struggle.

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

The ability to keep refocusing. Turning away from the bad, finding the good again. It's there. And there's always the temptation to let it be overshadowed by what can seem like a never-ending flood of yuck. We just have to keep turning back to the good.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid

It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.

My life is a train and it has derailed." ? Amelia Mysko

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

Some people definitely have harder things happen to them, things that don't seem fair. But maybe it's about how we choose to respond to those things. To keep fighting. Or not.

Every one of us has something in our lives that would hold us back if w let it," he said when he'd finished. "The key is to deal with it, then find a way around it.

It's easy to be in love when life is smooth sailing. What deepens it though is riding out the rough waves and finding your way back to what brought you together in the first place.

But if there was anything Martha had come to understand about life, it was that people didn't get to choose their tragedy. Tragedy chose its people.