Quotes About Adversity

It's what we do after all that's been done to us that matters.

We're all broken. Some of us are just in more pieces. It's how we handle it that makes us brave, and from where I'm sitting, you're the bravest person I've ever met.

No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn't lessen our own heartache. It doesn't diminish the fact that right then, you're dealing with one of the worst things that's ever happened to you.

only one road out here." "Just stay cool," I said. "They're probably

Gertie reached over and patted my hand. "It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella." That pretty much summed it up.

I looked around my boat and sighed. "When the corpses outnumber the living, you know your boat has taken a hard turn in the wrong direction.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

I am less morose. I am just showing the results of the terrific fight that I have waged inside of myself, and you know that the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.

She could still be. She could still be a mom and a wife, and there were still things she could be from bed. She could still find joy in her children. She could study and learn.

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

and thought of the painting of the little boat ploughing a course through dark seas towards the line of light. It had seemed to me then to represent elemental forces over which we had no control; now I see it as a brave little vessel buoyed up by beliefs and hopes, crewed by comrades and lovers, propelled by courage in the face of apparently overwhelming odds.

Not sure how ye can look so settled after such an unsettling day" Joseph said. "I know you're resilient but even strong and solid trees should look a little windblown following a storm!" "I learned to cope by leanin into the wind" I said, "just like you told me.

She says she's too old to fight and too fat to run, so she just has to rely on her good nature to survive.

That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it