Quotes About Adversity

Il me semblait voir la vie bouger à côté, frotter et moudre les êtres humains, mais sans me prendre, quoi que je fisse pour m'imposer.

Sometimes a life is so entirely disrupted, on such a large and ungraspable scale, all one can do is face the ruined day.

Each man carried the War differently. I liked that Chilton announced his weakness rather than attempting to hide it.

Just because Im not in as much pain as you doesnt mean I dont care. I dont sit there and drown myself in tears, I dont let anything get me down. If I sat there and felt sorry for myself what good would that do? I have my whole life infront of me there will be more bad things to come, But I am prepared to not let them fase me cause its a part of life. Bad things happen to everyone, BUT Goood Things also happen too. Dont look back and dont look to far ahead..

Having strong enemies is a blessing.

But you grew out of it." "Grew? No. I burned it all down, drank myself into a stupor, pissed off everyone I knew." They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

Isn't it better to be happy with a problem," he said, "than to be miserable with it?" Don't wallow, Jack told a nation stumbling under recession. When life gets hard, you need to get harder. This

People get up in the morning and they think it's another day. They make plans. They move in a chosen direction. But it's not another day. It's the day their train derails or a tornado touches down or the ferry sinks.

nobody goes to war hoping for a tie.

The only thing that can change who we are is life.

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.

the road that leads to blessing sometimes—often—goes through valleys and dark places.

But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading. But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me.

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned.

There lies the whole crux of the matter; what cannot be prevented must be borne

At the time there were no psychiatrists, psychologists or counsellors on hand as there are today, waiting to treat victims of wartime stress. Or if there were, we didn't hear of them. When a difficult situation arose, or tragedy struck, as it so often did, we just picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves down and got on with life. We had no option. And perhaps it wasn't such a bad philosophy after all.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.