Quotes About Adversity

But needs must when the devil drives.

This world's a vile oubliette. Yet in its refuse I will find the key to free me.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

I could see that one of them had a bloody scratch down his cheek. Good for Kestrel!

that no man who led a nation could win without also suffering losses.

We women might not be as strong

tragedies reported to us, the widow maintained her faith in Adonai, declaring that her people were bound to suffer for their disloyalty to God. "Bnei-Yisrael has done what is evil in Adonai's eyes," she would say, "and He has handed us over to our enemies. When we repent and turn to the Lord our God, He

No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade.

Hay que retener firmemente las cosas agradables que nos ocurren y construirse con ellas una fortaleza, y alejar en cambio a manotazos y patadas todo lo feo que se empeña en rodearnos y aplastarnos contra el suelo. Si tenía un disgusto, era capaz de plantarle cara y espantarlo como a un fantoche, pensando en los buenos momentos que había vivido y en los que aún le quedaban por gozar.

Soy elástica, ya lo sabes, y no soy persona que se entregue pasivamente a la tristeza. Necesito tantísimo la alegría y nunca me cierro a ella...

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

You must find the good and the positive in all of it. You must find the humor. I know it sounds impossible, but the whole situation is impossible, and you are working to fix that. Try to find a way to look on the brightside or at least don't dwell on the lousy.

no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution to my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do it.

Yes, I was lonely, but I knew then and I know now: I did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes. You know what I'm saying?

in our lifetimes we have so much to survive.

did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes.

Leave wreckage by the roadside. Burn all decayed tissue. Tightrope from which we emerge. —DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD

The Shield Bug was happy. It had an enemy. It had a sword. Soon the sword would meet the enemy. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets.

As desolate as he had felt when his best friend, Boy 409, had fallen overboard in a night raid and they had not been allowed to stop to pick him up.

But then, he smiled to himself, they were all in the same boat now.

Although Septimus knew he was not really squashed at all, he

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.