Quotes About Adversity

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza." "Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

Once upon a time, Long, long ago, Seven stars were flung from the sky. One to shake the mountains, One to churn the seas, One to choke the air, And four to test the hearts of men. Your hearts are to be tested now. Open them to the truths, For we must not just be ready For the enemy without, But also the enemy within.

I cry out and fall to my knees, unable to go on, weeping for the dead, weeping for the cruelties, and a whisper calls to me from far away, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. And I force myself to my feet again.

I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.

It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

Sometimes we're all pushed to do things we thought we could never do

No one is too great to fall.

But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall.

From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom.

rain is both a friend and foe, depending on when it comes.

You will have to do worse things to survive. Sometimes you must kill.

Synové's brows pulled down defensively. "When opportunity knocks, you don't go punching it in the face.

I have to face them sooner or later.

This was more than just making the best of it, this was something taking root, a seed being planted. But it was a seed that couldn't be planted.

Kaden landed on his stomach, clinging to the log as Rafe emerged from the mud below him. Rafe wiped the muck from his face and looked up. "Concede?" Kaden asked. Rafe saluted, graciously giving Kaden his due, but then smiled. "In hell.

It's just a bad day, not a bad life.

You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define who you are.

When I lost my possessions, I found my creativity," said E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, the lyricist behind The Wizard of Oz. "I felt I was being born for the first time."11

A fatherless girl thinks all things are possible, and nothing is safe.

You can live through most anything as long as you have the right tranquilizers on hand.

poorly. Then I fell

We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.

There is nothing," he said to the sapling firs, "like being able to endure hard times with a good countenance.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.