Quotes About Adversity

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough

Time's a goon, right?" You gonna let that goon push you around?

You can , Scotty – you have to,' Bennie said, with his usual calm, but through his thinning silver hair Alex caught a shimmer of sweat on his crown. 'Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?' Scotty shook his head. 'The goon won.'" (p. 329)

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

Th?i gian là má»™t k? kh?ng b?, ph?i không? C?u s? không ?? h?n xô ngã c?u ch?? Scotty l?c ??u. - K? kh?ng b? ?y Ä'ã th?ng.

Listen to me, Sasha, he said. You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?" Scotty shook his head. "The goon won.

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth     ââ'¬â€Persian Proverb

That's what I learned. Everybody's black and blue, somewhere. I never met anybody who wasn't." "Not like me." "No," said Shannon. "Everybody gets broken all their own way." She smiled bitterly. "That's what makes you, you: the pieces you're smashed into aren't like anybody else's. They're all yours.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.

That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

Jennifer L. Holm

But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.

I was sad. I was heartbroken. I was scared. But it was only through adversity that I found my saving graces. Sometimes they came from unexpected sources—a song, a challenge, or a friend. It was my responsibility to make the most of them, apply them to my life, act on them, and rise to the occasion.

It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.

Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't." "You either let it break you, or you don't.

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.