Quotes About Adversity

like your friend Mrs. Kantor, we'll be able to see the beauty in every cruelty we've had to endure. Even this moment.

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A wise man once said the bruises of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy,

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

Brokenness is a fact of life for us all, and I'm not just talking about physical breaking. Many of us have also had more than a taste of emotional brokenness too.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Iíve seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.