Quotes About Adversity

Only with (from) bad no good can come.

To the one me hurt within me I said: be quiet. Life is much more rough here, outside…

Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

to that. You couldn't go through that. You just

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.

Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back

I stand and brush the tears from my eyes. The hen is gone, and the harp that was my mother's, and all of our gold; my husband is gone, too. The castle I shared with him is an empty shell now, robbed of everything that mattered—but I have one last use for

first principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events

I win or I learn, but I never lose.

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

a fall is never final unless you stay on the ground.

No matter what you're facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you're meant to be.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." It's part of a longer passage, which reads:

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

Marie G. McIntyre

Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.

Fate has decreed no stability, only short-lived prosperity, unendurable adversity, now success, now failure.' John Skelton