Quotes About Adversity

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there is nothing that guarantees a successful pregnancy.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

But when I allowed myself to think of her, I remembered the delicacy of her brown body under her orange robe, and I drew courage from knowing that she had needed nothing to guide her but her determined heart. Had there ever been a man who could claim to be as fearless? She had never even held the heavy swords and sharp daggers that gave soldiers their swagger. Khadijeh may have been a slave, but in her heart, she was a lion-woman.

Winning does not tempt that man. His growth is this: to be defeated by ever greater forces. Book of Images

I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away? - Imru'l-Qays

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It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.

to the landslide.

Vera felt a twinge of sympathy. Perhaps the make-up and the sophisticated clothes were protection. Everyone had their own way of facing a hostile world.

There was no point, she'd learned, in raging against the inevitable, and incompetent bosses seemed to be as inevitable as death.

Sitting on the back of my motorbike going from west to east through Mongolia was one of the most inspiring and awesome experiences I've ever had. There was so little influence of the western world.

I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.