Quotes About Adversity

Reality, for orphans, is so often outdistanced by their ideals

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who can walk on their hands.

IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU.

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

I'm crying too much- I can't see where I'm going, Daddy,' Ruth told him again. 'But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over- sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?' 'Got it,' she said. 'So,' her father said, 'now you know everything.

Then there is Annileen. I was tempted to call her 'the Intrepid Annileen' just now - because she seems to be able to deal with whatever horror this planet can imagine. That's what I need to become: absolutely familiar with all the dangers here. She takes them in stride. Not because she's fearless, but because she knows she has to go on, to take care of all the people in her life.

And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.

Some days you get the bear...

The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—" She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. "This. I committed that crime so that you will never

Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin.

poor, or take a little chance

Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again

Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!

Love doth scathe The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.

She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.

John Kennedy Toole

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?

If you're not happy, the jerks win.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it