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Quotes About Adversity

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.
~ Kenji Goto
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.
~ Kool Moe Dee
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.
~ Larry Winget
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.
~ LaVar Arrington
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing
~ Lorrie Moore
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
~ Lou Holtz
Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
~ Louis Sachar
Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
~ Marian Engel
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
~ Mark Twain
Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
~ Matthew Pearl
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
~ Maya Angelou
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
~ Maya Angelou
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
~ Maya Angelou
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
~ Menander
I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.
~ Michael Jordan
It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.
~ Michael Richards