Quotes About Adversity

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

What bends does not break.

Life takes each of us to the anvil, shapes us with fire and hammer, and some of us break while some of us become stronger, more able to face the day. Even happy.

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

Last year, even my best friend, Keisha, stopped speaking to me when my family became homeless.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

He who puts up with insult invites injury.

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me