Quotes About Adversity

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Maddie: Now it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever.

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

No one will help you when you are left with problems. so plan how to face the crucial situations alone. God doesn't give a problem which you cant solve.

Don't go through the process, but GROW through it.

TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

The ones you help you get up are the ones who know how it feels to fall down.

Having high resilience does not mean it doesn't sometimes sting.

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.