Quotes About Adversity

Survival instructors have a saying: get organized or die.

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck...

If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.

Get on with the business of living," Ernest told me. "You don't have any other choice.

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.

La valeur d'un homme n'est pas dans la manière dont il tombe, mais dont il se relève !

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

Jeremiah Curtin

When we start to look at struggle as an opportunity to grow, we start to walk in the midst of struggle with a smile on our face. If you can do this, you are becoming awakened.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

Michael Ryan seemed a very nice chap to me. He was pleasant enough, but he appeared to be someone who wasn't getting to grips with life.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

One man against a corrupt system and I knew I could win! And Hindsight would like to point out I wasn't even on the really hard drugs yet. I'd

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

Instead I saw a fresh colostomy bag hanging from the side of his belly, "SHIT HAPPENS" written on the plastic in black felt-tip.

Chaos is only chaos to the people who aren't expecting it.

It made me feel that bad things could happen but they didn't have to stay bad. Sometimes they could get better, with a bit of help.

When you're in hell, there's nothing left to fear.

there is no good in frequently seeing objects which may one day lead to your captivity, or in making trial of things which you would find it hard to do without.

Losing is the great American sin.