Quotes About Adversity

The Universe is testing your resolve. Whenever we make a change, the static forces align and form a barrier.

Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.

What I learned late in life, under my rain of lava, under my kill-or-cure, unhappily, slowly, stubbornly, barely, and in really dreadful pain, was that there is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

I have had my share of trouble and sickness but always somewhere in me there is a little spot of warmth and joy to make it all easier, like a traveler's fire burning out in the wilderness on a cold night.

Well, let's look on the bright side," I said, deciding he needed a distraction. "Don't." "The good news is that we'll probably be either rescued or dead before we have to worry about serious hypothermia. There's always a silver lining, Hunter.

Guys from Roseburg could do it. Thoughts?

Sometimes you have to fight what won't yield and put yourself where it's safe to be crazy.

Ä°çindeki sönmüÅŸ yanarda??n yapt??? bask?y? hafifletmenin tek yolu kar??-ateÅŸler yakmak olmuÅŸtu art?k.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

Lifeis an enormous lottery: the prizes are few, the failures innumerable. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. That's life.

The bad things are some of my favorites," Peter said.

Wound make you deeper and bigger. The bigger the challenges you face, the bigger and deeper your soul gets.

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

This party is turning out to be the turd-encrusted cherry on the top of my shit-shake of a day.

It's like going into the ring against Ali when all I've done to train is eat doughnuts and binge-watch Rocky.

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.

If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve swords?" A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will you succeed without one?" Muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.

Life is a series of things we would rather not do.

When God means to punish a man He sends him stupid friends and clever enemies.