Quotes About Adversity

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you. Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.

If you're stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation,

I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I

If they lived through this, she promised to herself she'd be different. More open. Less worried. More fun. Less angry. More loving.

was orphaned and had to educate

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

Cuando vengan los días oscuros, no nos resulte extraño. Más bien recordemos que las lecciones asimiladas en días oscuros nunca las hubiéramos aprendido en los días soleados.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.

Un viejo bebedor de bourbon me dijo una vez que la vida era siempre cuestión de montañas y de cuevas: montañas que debemos escalar y cuevas en las que escondernos cuando no somos capaces de enfrentarnos a nuestras montañas.

great issue of your life, I promise you. Fear will be the fuel for all your success, and the root cause of all your failures, and the underlying dilemma in every story you tell yourself about yourself. And the only chance you'll have against fear? Follow it. Steer by it. Don't think of fear as the villain. Think of fear as your guide, your pathfinder—your Natty Bumppo.

If things got really bad at Grandpa's, I figured, my mother and I could live alongside Shelter Rock. We could sleep under the canopy and cook our meals over an open fire, and though it would be rough, how much rougher could it be?

One old bourbon drinker told me that a man's life is all a matter of mountains and caves—mountains we must climb, caves where we hide when we can't face our mountains.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

One of the important lessons for me to learn was having the negative energy move around me, instead of internalizing and reacting to criticisms.

Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.

We could have done it at our studios in England, but the movie would have then started off looking artificial," says Kershner. "We decided to go for reality. Unfortunately, it was Norway's coldest winter in 100 years. That's why you prepare for a film as if you were a prizefighter—I ran two miles a day for months before it, because I knew what to expect.

Even reloading a camera became difficult—and dangerous," says Johnson. "Acetate film becomes brittle in cold weather, and the edges are razor-sharp. Try loading frozen film into a camera during a howling blizzard with ice and snow particles trying to blast their way into the camera!