Quotes About Adversity

the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Press on and keep pressing. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk—CRAWL.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

The girl I am now, this girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

Interestingly, recurrent humiliation by a parent caused a slightly more detrimental impact and was marginally correlated to a greater likelihood of adult illness and depression. Simply living with a parent who puts you down and humiliates you, or who is alcoholic or depressed, can leave you with a profoundly hurtful ACE footprint and alter your brain and immunologic functioning for life.

Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences are on alert. It's a habit they learned in childhood, when they couldn't be sure when they'd face the next high-tension situation. After her terrifying childhood illness, Michele never felt at peace, or whole, as an adult: "I was afraid I could be blindsided by any small medical crisis that could morph and change my entire life.

There is a saying that you learn how to love others through the love others show you—but what if no one showed you how? Recent findings from interpersonal biology show that early losses and chronic unpredictable stress alter the neurocircuitry of the young brain in ways that dramatically change our later ability to create and nurture successful, meaningful relationships.

In other words, Kat has a very high ACE Score of 5. And yet if you had met Kat at twenty or thirty, it's unlikely that you would have recognized the link between her childhood trauma and the many adult health—and life—hurdles that would later challenge her.

Imagine for a moment that your body receives its stress hormones and chemicals through an IV drip that's turned on high when needed, and when the crisis passes, it's switched off again. Now think of it this way: kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-promoting drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there is no off switch.

kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-pro-mot- drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there is no off switch.

Ultimately, when you embrace the process of healing despite your Adverse Childhood Experiences, you don't just become who you might have been if you hadn't encountered so much childhood suffering in the first place. You gain something better: the hard-earned gift of life wisdom, which you bring forward into every arena of your life.

Some people won't be happy until they've pushed you to the ground. What you have to do is have the courage to stand your ground and not give them the time of day. Hold on to your power and never give it away.

There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.

There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, whay you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basked of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.

She would not trade one set of walls for another.

It is better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — HELEN KELLER (1880–1968)