Quotes About Adversity

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.

Mortals aren't born strong, they become strong.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

How it grieves me to think that the world always wins... but it goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.

I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

She alone knew that one must meet the world's madness with more madness.

Turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn it's back on you.

Life deals the cards, but it is up to us how we play them. [Maria of Jülich-Berg, mother of Anna of Cleves]

Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.

when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, "May you live in interesting times.

And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.

It's damned hard to kill a princess.

Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister

We've made our bed and we must lie in it.

One day you'll go walking with the devil, my girl, she told me, and you won't come back at all.

Life deals you the cards. but it is up to us how we play them

Sólo ella sabía que a la locura del mundo uno sólo puede enfrentarse con más locura.

Now, now, Chapeau. You mustn't overreact," the Beast said. "All messes, accidents, and catastrophes are to be blithely laughed off." He looked pointedly at Belle. "Or so I'm told.

I hardly recognize you. Where's the gown and the jewellery, little sister? Where are the conch you always carried around? Where's your hair?' Desiderio asked. 'Gone, Des. It's gone. Everything's gone. Cerulea. The palace. Mum and Dad-' Her voice broke.