Quotes About Adversity

I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Individuality, therefore, harbours its own enemy at home.'2

All their lives they've said how Folks that don't Work should Starve. Now they can't work but they ain't ready for what they been wishing on the shiftless of all races.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

Because when you feel physically and mentally low, molehills become mountains, slight set-backs seem like disasters, and the smallest problem tends to be the final straw to break the camel's back.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Problems are like heavy wind,when they come accept it like a wind kissing you, your skin, which feels a cold touch!

We can't control the way others treat us, but this book will show you how to tell them, in a positive and productive manner, how you feel about being treated poorly. Even more important, it will bring you closer to the God who wants nothing more than to hold you in the palm of His hand and love and protect you regardless of your circumstances.

The past doesn't define us. It's what we do with the present that determines our future.

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South's, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man's violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.