Quotes About Adversity

Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright

Lightness of being," then, is the ability, if not to find the good in bad things, then at least to remain afloat among them, perhaps to swim or to sail through them, possibly even to take precautions that can keep you dry.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And

The preservation of morale itself became an aim. For if morale faltered, all else might as well. So free speech trembled.

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And some discover a less inspiring humanity.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness