Quotes About Adversity

It's usually the roughest waters that teach us the most.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

We'll get everything straightened out. This has gone on long enough—we have to bring it to a close." She was quiet for a long moment before she said, "We?" He gave her shoulders a squeeze. "Come on, don't you feel like we're in this together? I want to help, Ellie. You got screwed, by Arnie, by the court, all around. You don't deserve this." She

but I'm still the child of an abusive alcoholic and we don't make great parent material.

He has dark eyes, thick eyebrows, and battered features. His nose has definitely been broken, probably a couple of times, and he's missing a piece of his ear, as if someone took a bite out of it. There's a story there, no doubt. I like that about his face. That it's a road map of been there, done that. It's interesting.

Problem solvers, doers. Life hasn't always been kind to them, but it's made them stronger, more determined. Opportunity isn't given, it must be made.

But welcome to the world of being a survivor. You make it out alive, and yet you spend the rest of your life wondering woulda, coulda, shoulda.

Pain has a flavor.

The kind of kid who is meant to suffer for the first twenty years or so, but then would take his software company public at age twenty-one and wind up married to a supermodel and driving a Ferrari.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

though her hands were still cuffed in front of her. She found the poker, the only weapon in the room, then once it was at her side, located her clothes. Fighting pain, she stepped into her jeans, socks, and boots, but she couldn't bother with her sweater, bra, or jacket. She had to keep her arms free.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

pride to get out of this pickle. 

People make mistakes; they do the wrong things. Sometimes they're annoying. Sometimes they're awful. (That's true for me, too, by the way.) So how do you know when it's time to give up? And do you know when to hang in there? I guess you don't really. You just make your choices and hope for the best.

The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

Alice was back, the landlord was evicting her, and she was out of dog food. She hadn't felt so totally at a loss since the day her mother had passed. And her employees were staring at her, momentarily speechless.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you.

Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline

If you go through life with your path greased, you could end up on your ass.

Nobody planned on the worst, but they got it just the same and had to deal. He knew the saying that "Man plans and God laughs," but he'd learned the truth was exactly the opposite—Man plans and God cries.

There's not many lawyers who could kill a cop, then kick ass in court the next day.