Quotes About Adversity

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.

To a small subset of the population the very fact that you are willing to stand up and speak out makes you a target for unfair critique.

It's possible to do everything right and still lose. That's not a weakness. It's life.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The same willingness to face reality that allows certain athletes to accept a negative turn of events also helps them bear what must be borne to address the bad situation.

I beat cancer, I had kids, and I did this with a disability. You couldn't knock me off that mountaintop.

A girl need not necessarily have the perfect start in life to fulfill such a dream.

The less we choose to need, and the less we rely on comfortable, favorable circumstances for peace of mind, the more control we have over our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. "Pain is the purifier," he taught. "Walk towards suffering. Love suffering. Embrace it.

I'm scared shitless." Knowing and accepting that a few things were bound to go wrong.

Frankl focused his psychologist's eye on ultrarealists he encountered in these awful places, writing that "the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement," which proved that "any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

How interesting it is that the attitude that ultrarealists choose to adopt in situations where their attitude is the only thing they can control is one of finding meaning in their suffering.

Endurance sports are largely about discomfort and stress; hence they are largely about coping.

Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.

It's okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That's the one with a story.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.

Failure is a trick of the light.

So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he'd try to be like his mother. Colourful, and happy and kind and full of joy.

Life is like a chimney - you sometimes have to get through the dark before you see the light.