Quotes About Adversity

We are not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Love isnt just in the good times, its more importantly in the Bad times as well.

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; its the endings were unprepared for.

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ~Richard Bach

no matter what you're going through, that you will get through.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

Whenever I think I've had an uphill battle, I remember Matt Murdock. Not just because he's blind, although even with his other senses hyper-enhanced, that is a climb. And not because he's become a world famous lawyer despite his impairment. But because being Daredevil has cost him everything more than once, more than twice and yet he still suits up any time there's trouble. Because he is a man without fear. Spider-Man

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. His mother thought he was a loser His father thought he was a bum Plenty of times he felt like running But he really had nowhere to run He fought it with everything he had With his brains and with his fists And whenever anyone told him he was nobody He'd tell himself "I exist

Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.

My only point is that it's also possible once in a while to do everything right and still have things go wrong.

The church was the most important institution in Poor Valley. It served as a family of families and helped that larger family push back against the uglier potencies of nature: weather, disease, death, and the darkness in one's own heart.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Markus Heitz

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

Cuando fracasa el primer intento [de rebelión], lo que, generalmente, suele ocurrir, nos rendimos hasta el siguiente, que ya será más debil y que nos volverá todavía más miserables y derrotados.

A veces pienso que mi incapacidad para creer atrae la desgracia.

Live gracefully in plenty and live gracefully in need. Embrace them both or swindle yourself out of half a life.

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn, young, how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and, finally, how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through the course of a life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall. I never swanned through anything, but I was always grateful for the chance to keep trying to shine up things. Anyway