Quotes About Adversity

himself up, and everything around him, two streets away.

wouldn't be hard), and then find

The wounded die or build a shield of scar tissue. Life moves on.

La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.

You had to laugh, if you wanted to survive.

There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world...how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do." —Jo Ellen Chapman

Life does go on.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

You never know what you're capable of until you're tested,

He was impressed by Standing Bear's simple statements of why he had come back north, his stoic acceptance of conditions over which he had lost control. "I thought God intended us to live," Standing Bear told Crook, "but I was mistaken. God intends to give the country to the white people, and we are to die. It may be well; it may be well." 12

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Life flows swiftly by and sometimes through tragedies, but it keeps flowing on.

She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.

I can't change any of this. 'No. But you're giving up. I can see it happening.' I'm temporarily retreating, Dave. Don't worry. I'll find my sea legs again.

Do you think it was part of some plan, that you got shot so you would end up in that church and discover religion?' Bruce shook his head. 'I got shot because someone was willing to exchange the name of an undercover cop for a lot of cash. Ending up in church--God was just kind enough to make something come out of the disaster that hit my life.

The wise make great use of adversity. The foolish whine about it.

Tekanan adalah kondisi yang bisa membentuk seseorang.

Menjadi kuat bukan berarti kamu tahu segalanya. Bukan berarti kamu tidak bisa hancur. Kekuatanmu ada pada kemampuanmu bangkit lagi ketika berkali-kali jatuh. Jangan pikirkan kamu akan sampai dimana dan kapan. Tidak ada yang tahu.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

If you want to transform your karma to a more desirable experience, look for the seed of opportunity within every adversity, and tie that seed of opportunity to your dharma, or purpose in life. This will enable you to convert the adversity into a benefit, and transform the karma into a new expression.