Quotes About Adversity

J. Carson Black

J. Elizabeth Mills

One of the ways to grow older without growing old is to become a beneficiary of your past rather than its victim or its prisoner.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

There will be no fucking sunsets in the pages that follow.

when you start to feel a little sad, anxious or irritable, it's not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it.

I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox.

G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.

There are a number of people who can't seem to realize that things could be mighty rough—even rougher than they are now—if there wasn't the slightest bit of deterrence.