Quotes About Adversity

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

people who have been backed into a corner will do anything to fight their way to the center again.

You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

The problem is that anchors don't just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

I thought I knew this world. I thought I could control it. But just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away from you.

Firefighting is a world of Murphy's Law; it is when you can least afford a crisis that one crops up.

If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

But risk always looks different when you are beating he system than when you've been beaten

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and maybe we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off

Bad things happen to good people every day." —

That if our legacy is not entitlement, it must be hope. Because if it's not, then we become the shiftless, the wandering, the conquered. We become what they think we are. —

Kiedy nie ma siÄ™ nic oprócz mÅ'otka, wszystko wyglÄ…da jak gwó?d?.

not for the first time I think that someone's enterprising idea of therapy is another person's frustrated hell.

But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off.