Quotes About Adversity

If you fail to look at the Brightside of life, You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.

I'm not "depressed," she said. Besides, I hate that word. OK, what should we call it? She fluffed the pillow behind her back, indignant. I'm very faithful to my problems.

Surveying the travails of the thirtieth president, some writers have suggested that those personal defeats are the essence of the Coolidge story. They err. Coolidge's is not a story of "Yes, but." It is a story of "But yes." For at every stage, Coolidge did push forward, and so triumph.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

But when the fire was about to quench, their children came with whips and stones then they began to whip and stone our heads; when they left that, they began to climb on our heads and jump from one to the second; after that they started to spit, make urine and pass excreta on our heads; but when the eagle saw that they wanted to nail our heads, then it drove all of them away from the field with its beak.

A tormentor forces his victims to be hardy.

some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting.

moving forward only because backward wasn't possible.

Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the cheer beneath her darkness, unlike everyday life, which tends to have the opposite effect

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

Amy Goldman Koss

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

They will do their best to invalidate your story. If that doesn't work, they will tell you not to tell your story.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

Jesus, Deacon," Andrew said from his other side. "Did you know the levee broke? Why didn't you get up to higher ground?" "'Cause me and God were having a conversation," Deacon mumbled with as much dignity as he could muster. "I called him a pussy-assed bitch, and he told me he didn't give a shit. It was a draw.

And he was kind. So damned kind. A man like me… a man like me did not take kindness for weakness. Kindness in the face of all the tiny knives the world had to throw at a body—that was real strength.

If basketball loves me as much as I've loved this sport, then it's not going to care who I am when I play it. If the world hates me more than it loves basketball, then I'd say that's the world's loss.

Yeah, you gotta stomp down on your emotions until they rise up, grab you by the throat, shake you around a little, and then grind you into the pavement. I've done that.

If he'd grown up in Death Valley, he figured driving an ambulance in Kuwait wouldn't feel like the seventh sphincter of the armpit demon living in hell's tenth colon.

Amal regarded him with that steady adult expression, the new one that had come after the former administration had destroyed everybody's innocence and COVID had taken their hope. "Just tell me where to apply," he said.

That's the bullshit you're having trouble with. There's no beating someone at life. There's just living your life the