Quotes About Adversity

celebrate your survival

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

It's sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don't live to see what people do to their visions.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

It's axiomatic among professional novelists that when things are going hideously for the lead character, the book is probably going along just wonderfully, thank you.

All at once, I went from successful social justice activist, to unemployed racist.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

I spied my shadow slinking up behind me in the night, I issued it a challenge, and we started in to fight. I wrestled with that shadow, but it wasn't any fun, I tried my very hardest— all the same, my shadow won.

Good music always defeats bad luck.

He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is.

You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.

My admiration for Britannicus grew as I watched the uncomplaining manner in which he accepted the injustice and the inefficiency and inconvenience being heaped upon him by incompetent superiors.

Don't get stuck with one pedal down and one pedal up.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.

Shit happens. You need to move on.

I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.

You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?