Quotes About Adversity

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being cheated.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.

Just Because something ends dosent mean that it's a bad thing or that someones bound to get hurt,ot that it never shold have happend in the first place or whatever. But If each step brings us to the next how can we grow if we avoid everything that can hurt us?? We pretty much have no choice but to get out there and hope for the best and who knows we may even learn a thing or two on the way

Because the truth is, as committed as I am to clearing my energy and only focusing on the good, positive things that I want, life is still life.It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

Man får ikke altid de rejser man ønsker sig nieta, men du vil altid få den rejse du har brug for

people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

you can tell a lot about a person from how they handle times of great stress.

Because if each step brings us to the next, then how will we ever get anywhere, how can we ever grow if we avoid everything that might hurt us?

Sie hatten mich einfach in die Höhle des Löwen laufen lassen, ohne Munition, ohne Verteidigungsmittel, ohne Ratschläge, wie ich das überleben sollte.

Life is not meant to be an open-book test,

This day's gone from really bad, to extremely bad and it's a long way from over.

Because, Ever, life is not meant to be an open book test.

That life is not meant to be an open-book test.

And this too shall pass. Though

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need".

true character is revealed by the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

There was so much she could not control, but sewing a path through the darkness, how could that not be good?

But as my sis always tells me, being scared is a choice. And so is being brave.

Like my mama tells me all the time, sometimes you just gotta be brave.

If a woman is truly clever, she can find freedom even in the most restrictive circumstances." She tapped the side of her head. "One just needs a little imagination and a little fortitude.

She's so strong and fierce that I am afraid of her sometimes. But she's going to need to be fierce, because the path she is on is going to be so painful.

Y, por último —y sobre todo—, porque una belleza que ha sobrevivido a tantos corsés físicos y mentales, a tantas coacciones, abusos, absurdas prohibiciones, dogmas, asfixia, desolación, sadismo, conspiración de silencio y humillaciones, una belleza así constituye un milagro de heroísmo.