Quotes About Adversity

adversity does not mean that you cannot experience victory—

Failure is not final, and I always have said it is fertilizer for future success.

than 3,500 lawsuits in his life. That's almost 50 lawsuits a year, since birth.

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion.

It might be harder than you imagined it to be -- it might take longer -- but you can change things, Marik. Your life is significant. As low as you are . . . there is only room to rise. But you have to let go.

many pagans harbored ill feelings about Christians and widely believed them to be antisocial, contrary, incompliant, intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible, obstinate, and uncompromising. That means if many Christians today feel like they take the brunt of hostility from an unbelieving world, they can rest assured that this has been felt by myriads of believers in times past.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

I was born in a halfway house on a one-way street.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced—mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes—would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

Fucked up is the universal condition of man. We were crossing to Oregon behind a cranky team of mules—the very definition, the apotheosis, the pinnacle, of fucked up. I woke in the morning to harness mules, fucked up, obsessed all day on making more miles, fucked up, and collapsed onto my squalid wagon matteess every night, fucked up. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

them out once he found out their circumstances, and

Against Self-Pity It gets you nowhere but deeper into your own shit--pure misery a luxury one never learns to enjoy.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

I do not boast the historical fact of belonging to a human race that has suffered a lot as some kind of medal, nor have I ever tried to derive moral advantages or reparations.