Quotes About Adversity

I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.

They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.

In times like these, perhaps a Queen with a knife will give us more heart than a woman who drapes herself in jewels and hides behind walls.

I had been outnumbered. Outmaneuvered. They'd withheld information from me. Worse, logic and rationality were on their side.

To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Some things cannot be solved," he pointed out philosophically. "Drink makes those things much more tolerable.

The profit from danger only pays you interest in trouble

Putting into the dragon had helped in the same way that cutting off an infected limb helped. Being rid of it was not the same as being healed of it.

When you can either laugh or cry, you might as well laugh

We walk when no

You take refuge in the bully's first strength: what you can destroy.

Lost a fight?" he'd asked, still out of breath. "The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.

In books, even when bad things happened, better things seemed to follow. The boys and girls in the stories could somehow slay the dragon or save the wounded animal or solve the mystery. Good saved the day, and villains were banished forever.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.' You know who said that? The Duke. Always appreciated that man's common sense.

Every foot is slow on an unknown path, my dear. Just face the sun and turn your back on the storm. It will all turn out right in the end.

Time would be my friend, I told myself. Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.

You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any of us can do about it except choose how to respond.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

When evidence reached Joffre's ears that the men were complaining, that untenable positions were being given up or that attacks were not being pressed home with their former élan, his answer was not to question Nivelle or his own methods, but to call for courts martial and firing squads.