Quotes About Adversity

when things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh

Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

L'austérité est une bonne arme contre ces moments de cafard qui changent ton âme en égout. Pour commencer, c'est toi qui reprends le contrôle, même s'il y'a des chances pour que ce ne soit que pure illusion. Ca aide au moins à limiter les dégâts, peut-être pas pour soi mais pour son entourage.

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.

I don't know why he isn't dead, maybe he's lucky. Certainly his physical self is dead. Before the streets, drugs, IV use, and hustling -medically - his body is not right. [...] So there is some will to live in him, to pass on his knowledge and good nature. It's a mystery. Dave is an inspiration to people. He is society's throw-away.

Embrace personal culture shifts. Look at every experience as something that happens for you, not to you.

If you think things cannot get worse, it is probably because you lack sufficient imagination.

What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow? Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings. A life made of air

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth.

We tend to thrive when we see opportunities for growth, not when we are in defensive mode.

Everyone has to have hope in their life, or they will eventually become your enemy.

An objective loss is impervious to how you feel about it or react to it. It's not subject to anyone's appraisal; it must be accepted without evaluation.

Because people tend to regard loss, wrong, bad, and failure as the same thing, it is little wonder that loss is a dirty word in our vocabulary.

However, in the markets losses should be viewed like the light bulbs or rotten fruit mentioned earlier: part of the business and taken with equanimity. Loss is not the same as wrong, and loss is not necessarily bad.

It is the loss side on which you must focus first

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I broke my arm in 3 places so I wont be going back to those places.