Quotes About Adversity

the scars were commentary to his courage,

My dear child, it is never finished. Our enemies are cunning and careful. and they are legion.

There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.

The first mission is finished with no casualties beyond Nat's cracked rib and the blood still caked in Mary Alice's hair.

knew that he had led a failed expedition to the jungles of the Amazon, an expedition that had cost him his marriage and his honor as well as his career as a rising star in the firmament of natural history.

There is always a pony,

Some things are purified and strengthened by trial, others destroyed.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Good things don't always lead to bad ones, Crick.

Turned up or turned down, the feeling is permanent. She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world, where it got battered by storms of ill will and bad circumstances and demons of your own or of other people. Love didn't stand a chance.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts.

Sometimes, humans must also attempt to come back to life.

It's okay. She can handle being a disappointment. She can handle a lot of things.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Distress leads to dimness.

This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim