Quotes About Adversity

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Elizabeth Wein

There is a classic moment in 'The Sun Also Rises' when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that's all I can say too.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.

Story of my life: I am so self-destructive, I turn solutions into problems. Everything I touch, I ruin. I'm Midas in reverse.

All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten.

Remember, every attack of the Enemy has a shelf life; this too will pass. But endurance, or grit, is necessary to survive a siege.

Grit, or the ability to endure, is hard to come by. It is developed only by walking through the fire and not giving up.

Much of what you learn through times of adversity will become lifelong wisdom, and these truths will sustain you throughout your ministry.

By the time they reached the boat her rudder had already been torn off.

press on around the coast to Leith Harbor. But the Caird's rudder was now lost.

Shackleton came to the conclusion that instead of sailing to Leith Harbor

Shackleton, Crean, and Worsley went to work leveling the floor of the cave with some loose stones and dry tussock grass.

wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've

adding up to a total thickness of 7 feet, 1 inch.

The only superfluous item Shackleton permitted was Worsley's diary.

It was one-thirty in the afternoon when the crews scrambled on board each boat;