Quotes About Adversity

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Adam decided that since I was going to keep getting into trouble, the only thing he could so was try to ensure I could get myself out of it, too.

Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger...

Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

I had two choices. I could stand here and cry—or I could get mad. Guess which one I chose.

That which doesn't destroy us . . ." "Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, 'What's next?

Survival is not a pretty business.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." I

But I've learned that there are always terrible things, and sometimes it is very important to grasp what joy and beauty you can, whenever you can.

scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.

Katherine Briggs

Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Patricia Briggs

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Haven't you learned by now that it's always one thing after another? Being busy is no excuse. Everyone's busy.

When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.

you can do one of two things. You can blame God for your misery or you can turn to Him and draw strength from His love. He is always there for us.

It seems I am fated always to be wading through the shite, thought Becket a few hours later, coughing and trying not to breathe through his nose. Before him stretched a foul plain down to the Thames mudflats, lined with long dykes. The nearest steamed gently before him: a dunghill of magnificent, epic size. Stench of piss and shit many weeks old was making the air blue above them and the number of different mephitic and disease-laden odours hardly bore thinking about.