Quotes About Adversity

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

But even the bad stuff in life can teach you something, shape you.

After all, every story have both good and bad in it, and life can be like that too. I guess it's what we take away from it that counts.

It's a part of life. You never know what you are going to get, you just have to be strong enough to deal with it. Keep a positive attitude and have a little faith. I

It's a part of life. You never know what you are going to get, you just have to be strong enough to deal with it. Keep a positive attitude and have a little faith.

Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.

This is the worst thing that will ever happen, I thought, and as I stared into Olivia's enormous green eyes, I knew she was thinking the same thing. This is the worst thing that will happen to us in our entire lives.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

I did survive. I still am. And it won't happen again.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

I survived. Isn't that what matters?

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The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

Everything falls apart so you can begin rebuilding yourself and your new reality.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

In life, there might be situations that make you sink, It's just to make you stronger than you think, Be like mercury not like glass when you get troubles, Split but join the mercury bits before it's lost in life's puzzles

Merline Lovelace

As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.