Quotes About Adversity

I have seen flowers come in stony places, And kind things done by men with ugly faces,' Gamache said,

in her Montreal office the day a batch of rejection letters arrived, ripping them into pieces and dropping them on the floor for the hired help to clean up. 'This world is messed up, I tell you. People are cruel and insensitive, they're out to screw each other. There's no love or compassion. This', she sliced her book violently in the air like an ancient mythical hammer, heading for an unforgiving anvil, 'will teach

Despond not, though times be bale, And baleful be, Though winds blow stout –

They need to fight their way out of the cocoon. It builds their wings and muscles. It's the struggle that saves them. Without it they're crippled. If you help an emperor moth, you kill it.

Sometimes the only way up is down.

You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged.

When you see the worst you appreciate the best.

You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged. 'Had you known Madame

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

And the enemy you'll be fighting is yourself.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

I am abandoned on the ship of life." "I know." "Jas, you are not really cheering me up." "Well, I know and that is because there is really nothing to be cheerful about; I would hate to be you." in

That's the way to live, Chloe. Savor the good times, stay strong through the bad ones.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end. For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it, though when clouds arise Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)

The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who'd gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma or shock, and if we could just get the splinters out of our paws, we'd be fine. My thorn was the fact that my mother had left me. Megan

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

We all praise fidelity; but the true friend pays the penalty when he supports those whom Fortune crushes.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

One of my mother's favorite expressions is "Life is fraught with peril.