Quotes About Adversity

consequences of any misfortune.

It took a lot to straighten your back like that, hold your head up, be the strength and not the victim.

about knocks you

When it comes to problems at school,

difficult and beautiful.

What feels like a disaster can be your new opportunity.

It can get rugged." "You saying beautiful isn't always easy?" he asked her. She grinned. "I'm not sure that's exactly the message, but I guess so.

scars are much tougher than virgin skin.

Is there any way to keep them from paying for our mistakes?" "Yeah. They'll eventually make enough of their own to take the heat off. Meanwhile, we just have to stay strong and know we are doing the best we can.

that our biggest blunders can end up being the best thing that ever happened to us.

Because sometimes it is as bad as you fear, or even worse. And sometimes you have to do it anyway, because the kind of life you're left with if you don't isn't really of the same value.

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks

And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.

And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

There was no half-assing a descent into hell.

I'll keep going. Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. It

Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy.

No matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

We're so good together, and it's a tragedy in its own right to throw that away because of something neither of us did. Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy. And all things considered, I'm glad that car accident was mine. Otherwise I wouldn't be applying to East Coast colleges, or on the debate team, or any of those things, because I wouldn't have met you.

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wasn't exactly crying, but it hurt like hell to swallow.