Quotes About Adversity

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

Cruzimea n-are rost unde-i iubire si nici puterea unde-i umilinta; blandetea-nvinge orice-mpotrivire, ca veseli orice suferinta.

Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.

Patrick: Is fear rith maith n? drochseasamh. Jessica:And that means what? Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand. Jessica: Oh. And that means what? Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

trunk. "Only you and Octavian can endure it. Our mother would never

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so, Mutnodjmet.

The best any of us can do in life is to try to build a strong foundation on which to stand," she said. "And then meet life as it comes, as courageously and honestly as possible. If we fall, well it is fate. It is destiny!

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

When I first met you,' Pirra said levelly, 'we were stuck on an island with no food and no water. But we survived.' 'That was different.' 'I know, but if anyone can survive out here, it's you.

I was no longer the frightened obsessive who'd cowered in the storm and fought an illusory battle with a log. I was Jack Miller, the man who's keeping the 1937 Spitsbergen Expedition alive against all the odds.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

Everybody ain't happy for your success, but you don't let their feelings rob you of your happiness.

have to work through some problems, period.

Some of us just be beggin' to learn the hard way.