Quotes About Adversity

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger. Ruin is the milk all witches must drink; it's the lesson they learn and the diet they're fed upon.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

Hard times make for simple minds

A decade or two on the rocks gives a person character. Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said no to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't understand that every word the judge said was a trap, in that every word she said could easily be a stone used to shut her into that trap.

when somebody's that nasty, it's because she must have walked through fire. Those comments you're getting are flying off her like sparks without her even knowing she's all burned up inside.

But she did choose courage. Didn't she?" "In life we don't always get what we choose. I gave her what she needed.

They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

The things that go wrong are rarely the things you,ve thought to worry about.

I don't make all the decisions, you know," Isabelle managed to say. "I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time.