Quotes About Adversity

If all else fails, stop drop and roll..works for me..:)

First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).

But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)

I didn't think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse." "But you're so calm, " she observed."That's usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.

There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.