Quotes About Adversity

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Marriage or no marriage, children or no children, life - the real life - is lived in the spirit, and I hold that the right education helps the spirit to maintain its own life, makes it independent of material prosperity or adversity. That is the ideal we strive for. To enrich the spirit, to enrich the personality.

EASY" Is there, we wonder, some virtue in being difficult?

A friend of ours, when she trips over some surprisingly intense emotional response, says, philosophically, "Oh well—AFOG," which stands, she says, for Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth.

When there is darkness there is no point to be down. It is your chance to shine!

I was a loser in high school. . . . And I'm here to tell my fellow dweebs and losers that your day will come. High school is not the final word on you. There is hope.

People come up to you and say, "Oh man, that's the scariest thing in the world what you do, talk in front of people." It's not scary to me. Your job is scary to me, fucking selling shoes in the mall for 30 years only to have the place go out of business.

Life isn't for everybody.

They'd been afloat now without food, water, shelter, or sleep for over forty hours. Of the 1,196 crew13 members who'd set sail from Guam three days earlier, probably no more than 600 were still alive. In the previous twenty-four hours alone, at least 200 had likely slipped beneath the waves or been victims of shark attack. Since the sinking, each boy had been floating through the hours asking himself the same hard question: Will I live, or do I quit?

I need to believe in her stories as much as she does. That Lothar Berfelde navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Publishing your first fiction is somewhat like sailing during hurricane season.

But I begin to wonder if he also doesn't have a demented sense of humor, and thinks it's fun to throw wild shit our way.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Douglas E. Richards

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

Douglas E. Richards