Quotes About Adversity

though suffering rises up and shames me.

Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.

being dragged along crippled over things as if broken-winged

Life plots elegantly.

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

Like I said, I wish this world were different. But that doesn't mean I can change it for the better. This year nearly broke me. But it wasn't just the powers that got me through. I found something inside me. I found my voice, and I'm not afraid to use it. So here I am with my head to the sky and my feet on the ground. And I'm not backing down!

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

But from this side of life, I can see how every moment, every experience, every pivot, even my supposed missteps have been life's way of getting me where I have always been meant to go. Rather than resisting the current, I've learned to surrender.

Life, like a merry-go-round, may make you dizzy but you have to hold on even in the hardest of times

Slechte man, slechte daemon. Je hebt eerder tegen ze gevochten. Je moet weer tegen ze vechten. - Matilda

Well, Hem, all's well that ends well, but it almost ended very badly. Almost in disaster." Hem looked down, and his cheeks flushed. Cadvan patted his shoulder. "I forgive you for almost getting us killed, or worse," he said.

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

Joan once told me she thought compartmentalizing gets a bad rap—especially when it comes to people like us, who have been through something so traumatic; ignoring it for long periods of time can be a means of survival. When you've been through fire, you can't feel that burn every day, she explained. You have to go on with your life.

The Nazis have given up

Are you frightened now?" I nodded, shame flushing my skin. "Is it going to stop you?" "No." "That is the courage of a warrior.

There was a saying that the strength of a man's steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

The world wasn't perfect. Life wasn't perfect.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

And she tried to breathe.

In the dimly lit basement hall of Saints Peter and Paul's Soup Kitchen, in the back alleys behind the bus station, in the urine-scented wards of the state mental hospital, I saw, firsthand, that it was possible to lose everything and still go on.