Quotes About Adversity

But life isn't all sunshine and fairy gardens." "But it could be.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

Even though it was hard, she overcame her adversity and used it to help others empower themselves. And if that's not a lesson we can apply to life, I'm not sure what is.

You are a survivor, like me. Remember that. No matter what happens, you can handle it. Trust yourself.

Princess Ella

I'm a big, tough girl. I'll be all right. I tie my own sandals and everything.

As my eldest could tell you, tussling with the Dwarf Police Squad is no picnic.

I'll be all right. I'm a big, tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.

Villains try to tear us apart, but we are stronger than we realize. I know it's hard not to fall victim to fear, but we must try.

Sometimes kids get a mean teacher or a class they don't like or an inflexible deadline even though that child was "exhausted the night before." We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

As Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing says: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

I suspect the wilderness is a permanent home for me, which is both happy and hard.

Success = persistence when it gets hard.

you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.

There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs.

INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF: Flowers grow in sand. I can do anything.

Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.

When taking great leaps forward, life often turns to shit before it turns to Shinola.

It's the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates the successful from the unsuccessful.

You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.

Nur wer aufgibt, scheitert wirklich. Alles andere dient nur dem Sammeln von Informationen.

Sometimes it can feel like The Universe is conspiring against us.

If you finally decide to quit your soul-crushing job and start the pastry shop of your dreams, be not upset if a truck drives through your front window into your scones. Instead of taking this as a sign that you shouldn't have opened your shop, take it to mean that you're ridding yourself of your BS and moving in the right direction.

Whenever anything excellent or mediocre or lame or annoying happens to you, meet it with the statement, "This is good because . . . " and fill in the blank. Once you make this a regular practice, you'll see how much easier it is to be in gratitude for much more than you realized.