Quotes About Adversity

three-parts

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realized she would have to cast a wider net. Mrs. Elm was right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.

You lose your job, then more shit happens. The wind whispered through the trees. It began to rain.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

LIFE IS HARD. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. The way people seem to cope is by not thinking about it too much. But some people are not going to be able to do that.

It's not what

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

To feel hope you don't need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change.

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.

And amongst us one,Who most has suffered, takes dejectedlyHis seat upon the intellectual throne.

Tis the gradual furnace of the world, In whose hot air poor spirits are upcurl'd Until they crumple, or else grow like steel- Which kills in us the bloom, the youth, the spring- Which leaves the fierce necessity to feel, But takes away the power- this can avail, By drying up our joy in everything, To make our former pleasures all seem stale. - Tristram and Iseult

They have anger. And they have nothing to lose." An

die in place or undertake a desperate swim to greener pastures on other islands beckoning in the distance. The moral of the story: There doesn't need to be a pig trapper or a turkey farmer in the equation to cause a mass die-off event; nature can do it all on her own. And nature doesn't care about your schedule, or your personal problems.

Despite the severest deprivation in early childhood, these people are neither living a greedy, me-first style of life, nor are they seeking gain at the expense of others. None express the idea that the world owes them a living for all they have suffered. On the contrary, most of their lives are marked by a compassion for others" (p. 233).

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

Personal power is the ability to stand on your two feet with a wide smile amid a plethora of universal circumstances that are ready to crush you or devour you.

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man." -Nellie Bly