Quotes About Adversity

The way I see it, Elle. Scars are proof we can survive.

Time has that funny way of smoothing out the rough edges of things, even ones that hurt a little bit. Or a lot.

But confidence bred confidence, that's what her dad had always told her back in the days when she'd been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.

That sometimes you don't get over something. You just get through it.

It's easy to learn who your real friends are after an accident

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Illness "controlled her without making her feel that her liberty was invaded,

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.

The road less traveled will not be smooth

No ride. So I couldn't go home. No plan. No boyfriend. No job.

In six weeks, I'd be packing up all my stuff and getting the hell out of Pineville. But until then, my life at The Mall would really, really suck.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

It is unbearable—and yet I bear it.

I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: "gradually and then suddenly.

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!