Quotes About Adversity

But unlike your shadow, it's deadset on ruining your life!

We can't choose what happens around us. But we can always choose how we respond to our greater reality.

Je pense à Dora Bruder. Je me dis que sa fugue n'était pas aussi simple que la mienne une vingtaine d'années plus tard, dans un monde redevenu inoffensif. Cette ville de décembre 1941, son couvre-feu, ses soldats, sa police, tout lui était hostile et voulait sa perte. A seize ans, elle avait le monde entier contre elle, sans qu'elle sache pourquoi.

I had hit bottom, and my only recourse was to push off hard with my heel to rise back to the surface.

Don't let it faze you, kid. I've fallen into my share of black holes, too...

When your circumstances fail but your character succeeds, you become a model of hope for others.

We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious. "No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?" Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No." "But we're going anyway." "Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both," I say.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Something I chose to forget because it didn't fit in with how shit everything was.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil," I said. "But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba," he said, "don't only devils remain?

Through Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both.

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now. Aren't we?

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.

People break, I guess. Everyone.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.