Quotes About Adversity

we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

If you lived all your life with monsters, what was monstrous?

every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.

Everywhere I go to find this boy, to save this boy, I run into something worse than what we are saving him from … but we still think monsters are the ones with claws, and scales and skin.

My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.

I didn't tell him that be on top is to worry. Once you climb to the peak of the mountain, the whole world can take a shot. I know the Singer know that plenty people hate him, but I wonder if he know what shape that hate take.

Devil has his part to play.

There was this gate and it was just some rusty gate but I knew I had to get through it. The only way forward is through. Who said that? I had to get through it, if I didn't I would die, get cut open, sliced with a knife from the neck right down to labia with me screaming all the time, I just had to get through the fucking gate.

Living through a day was harder, for no matter how much I stomp one down another was always coming. Watching the little poison frog take on a day is how I learn to live through it. First rip the day in half, time to sleep, time to walk. Then tear it down more, then more, and more after that. Tear a day into pieces you can swallow and soon the whole thing will pass.

Everything that comes into my life, Satan wants to use to destroy me. Everything that comes into my life, God wants to use for my good. I choose to give everything to God for good.

Sé que si me rindo, el miedo puede destruirme.

I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.

For instance, people who speak up for what they want in the face of conflicting peer group expectations must endure a period when others become rejecting, angry or critical. They must sustain themselves during the tension of these days (or months or years), while continuing to move in the direction they have decided is good for them. They must be strong enough within themselves to persevere and know that, even though others may be critical, they are acceptable in their own estimation. People

It should not surprise us that people cause us troubles, temptations, oppositions and difficulties. We should accept these and bear them for as long as God wishes, and view them as highly beneficial to our spiritual development.

If young George felt closer to his grandfather than to his own father, it was probably because George Wallace, Sr., was almost totally absorbed in a ceaseless, savage, losing cat-fight with life.

Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.

Il coraggio a volte è una via obbligata.

Después, la vida sigue porque, al fin y al cabo, nunca nada es lo suficientemente devastador.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

This is life, I suppose. You stick to the moment you're in whether it's good or bad. Next

Good news is at least the climb down will be easier. Thanks, gravity, for not always being a bitch.