Quotes About Adversity

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.

But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The

A funny thing happens when the world turns, as it turned for us on the night we burned the British embassy down. You wake up the next morning and carry on.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Now I was beginning to understand how we could put horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

Now I was beginning to understand how we can put the horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe five different countries so far. I am homelandless. I even make mistakes when I speak Bulgarian. But it's not big deal, not really. It's not the end of the world, right? It's okay.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see whether you can suffer like one.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

She hated this place. Nothing made sense. Nothing worked as it was supposed to. She was supposed to be learning things as she went along, gaining strength for her final battle. All she was doing was losing things, one thing at a time.