Quotes About Adversity

Weak people abound, strong people abide.

Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren't brave. Now you need to be braver still.

have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.

For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom

When the string breaks while working, there is still the rope. When the oars wear out, there is still the tree, she recited. You feel you can't go on, but you will.

Every one of us could complain, but would that make our situation emotionally easier or physically more comfortable?

The typhoon that hit us wasn't the worst we'd ever experienced, but we were all so much weaker in our bodies and minds that the impact was just one more remorseless blow.

Don't rehearse your problems, Dad always said. Meaning, we were only supposed to go through our problems when they were actually upon us.

Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.

But in the end, it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them. That's where you have control over your life.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster." —Friedrich Nietzsche

We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things have their impact and can't be undone. To judge those experiences, to hate the things that have happened to us is to hate who we've become because of them.

We don't always choose what happens to us. But we choose what we do with it.

Anything you fight against gets stronger.

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

A relationship can push us into having to confront certain areas of life, even if natally we are neither predisposed nor well equipped to cope in that area.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you? The world's a lot bigger than I am.

He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...

When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.

Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister.

Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.

Just when you think life is a bitch, it has puppies.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.