Quotes About Adversity

Wir Menschen beklagen uns oft, dass der guten Tage so wenig sind und der schlimmen so viel - meist mit Unrecht. Wenn wir immer ein offenes Herz hätten, das Gute zu genießen, das Gott für jeden Tag bereitet, wir würden alsdann auch Kraft genug haben, das Übel zu ertragen, wenn es kommt.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Trouble is part of your life

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

Criticism is a life without risk.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.