Quotes About Adversity

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.

Here's a story of a girl Who grew up lost and lonely Thinking love was fairy tale And trouble was made only for me Even in the darkness every color can be found And every day of rain brings Water flowing To things growing in the ground Grief replaced with pity For a city barely coping Dreams are easy to achieve If hope is all I'm hoping to be Any time you're hurt There's one who has it worse around And every drop of rain will keep you growing Seeds you're sowing in the ground

Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough - from Firefly

When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.

We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream.

It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the seat of power.

I am always in danger.

In the United terminal in Chicago at five on a Friday afternoon The sky is breaking with rain and wind and all the flights Are delayed forever. We will never get to where we are going And there's no way back to where we've been.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?

Well, no. Marianne thought there could be lots worse.

Asked by a journalist how he had felt after an unsuccessful election, Abraham Lincoln said, Like a little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark, he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.

he'd come to earth. Hard.

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You don't have to understand why anything that has happened to you has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains. A

Ante tus enemigos, aconsejaba el padre de Rebecca, es tan prudente ocultar tu inteligencia como esconder tus debilidades.

En el Exilio te agarras a lo que tienes, a lo que no te han quitado (todavía).

Joyce Carol Oates