Quotes About Adversity

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

These are challenging times. Only the strong survive. And by the strong, I mean people with a strong enough mindset to make it through this particular place that we're in as a society. Because we're taking steps backward. We really are going backward.

You have to risk negativity, risk banishment, risk hatred to have a life worth living.

Our scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything.

Soul growth is the result as an individual positively meets life's challenges.

The passengers huddled in their wet bedding, salt water streaming down the cabin walls, and prayed for deliverance.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.

Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but SHAPED by by the turbulence that washes over her.

Rahim, a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Seorang anak laki-laki yang tak mampu membela dirinya sendiri akan tumbuh menjadi pria yang tak mampu menghadapi masalah apapun.

Zendagi migzara