Quotes About Adversity

Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

my emotional sobriety is than that person or that situation, and I don't allow what happened to ruin the rest of my day. As mentioned before, it feels good to be emotionally independent and in control of both myself and what would otherwise be an uncomfortable situation.

On a daily basis, she accepts those facts and stays busy making the best of her own life.

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.

Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

The best football player in America could not serve as captain of his team. But Paul expressed neither surprise nor anger: by now he knew this was the way the white world operated, and he was able to shrug it off.

Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, "Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

We are, all of us, always being tested

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

This "they win, the people lose" formula has become the one that has now set the world on its calamitous course.

The life of man upon the earth is a warfare. Job 7:1 (Douay-Rheims) A

loss of an economic basis is what, above all, fate means today.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre! L'air immense ouvre et referme mon livre, La vague en poudre ose jaillir des rocs! Envolez-vous, pages tout éblouies! Rompez, vagues! Rompez d'eaux réjouies Ce toit tranquille où picoraient des focs!

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!

A difficulty is a light ; an insurmountable difficulty is a sun .