Quotes About Adversity

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

I 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." Somehow

The more you get past pain, the more it gets from coal to diamond.

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.

Either you dissolve into a puddle, or you take the blow on the cheek and force yourself to lift your face again for more.

She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe

He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He

she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

They can take away my livelihood and my food and"—here his voice hitched—"my grandson. But they can't take away my dreams." His

In November, there were changes. My father came home one day with yellow stars, which we were to wear on our clothing at all times.

The person may have a scar but it also means they have a story.

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?

into a conversation. I am hoping that

Unele rani sunt prea mari pentru a fi cusute. Trebuie sa le lasi deschise si sa le protejezi pana ce peste ele creste alta piele. Dar noua piele nu are terminatii nervoase normale, te tine in viata, dar amortit.

Some are born crazy," Amelia said. "Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.

O tÃ…â"¢i mÄ›síce pozdÄ›ji jsem byl navzdory vÅ¡emu Å¡Å¥astný, že nás trénovali tak tvrdÄ›. Základní vojenský výcvik dohnal nÄ›které z nás k úplné krizi, k totálnímu stresu, ale proti podmínkám skute?ného boje to poÃ…â"¢ád byla procházka r?žovou zahradou.

Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease(...).

When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

Wherever you are — it's too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you're not done. Today's defeat could be tomorrow's gold.

No matter how bad things get, you always get yourself sorted out in the end, don't you?

The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another.

Evil, crime, or suffering comes at us in many ways, and rarely does it wave a flag or blow a whistle to say, "Get ready, I'm coming!