Quotes About Adversity

Ser infeliz y sufrir es como forjar el hierro candente, es la ocasión que nos es dada para crecer y la única razón de nuestra existencia.

Problems escaped from aren't problems resolved

Her real life was underway, with all of its scratches and dents. Like the rest of us forty to forty five, she was something of a used book; intact but a bit battered around the edges.

Well, I've said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.

I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat. Things happen out of order and just plain wrong, and there is not one thing you can do about it. The message of every morning is? ??????????

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.

little disappointments seem like paper cuts; they can bother you more than the big things do.

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

redemptive beauty, I think. Despite her

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

Women do not leave situations like this: we push up our sleeves, lean in closer, and say, What do you need? Tell me what you need and by God I will do it. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When

He says the only way to know yourself is to challenge yourself - in a hard way, so that you're really scared. He says what you do in times like that is what you are.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief.

A 'few chits'? Good God, man, I've never faced such odds," the captain admitted. "The French have the decency to shoot at you." Lord

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.