Quotes About Adversity

Kids like that, who've had too much adversity young, have a real uphill battle. Quinn tries so hard, but she's something of a lost soul… she needs us to understand her.

Sometimes you have to look at what's really bad," he said, "to see what's really good.

north. The stars had blazed low over the curving hills. Her father had dropped them off hungry, to make them hunt for their food. Sharpening a stick, she had waited in the rushes.

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

Life seems like a cup of glory held to my lips just now. But there must be some bitterness in it - there is in every cup. I shall taste mine some day. Well, I hope I shall be strong and brave to meet it. And I hope it won't be through my own fault that it will come.

I'm sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow - though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it.

Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. 'There will be other rainbows.' she said. Emily was a chaser of rainbows.

I know that into everybody's life must come some days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds; but one must not forget that the sun is there all the time.

My world has tumbled into pieces. I want to reconstruct it

It never rains but it pours.

He aprendido a considerar cada pequeña dificultad como una broma y cada gran dificultad como el adelanto de la victoria.

El humor es el más picante de los condimentos en el festín de la existencia. Ríanse de sus errores pero aprendan de ellos; alégrense en sus penas pero ganen fuerza con ellas; hagan un chiste de las dificultades, pero vénzanlas. Ana de la isla.

Genuinely normal people were the first to die. Surivors were the few individuals endowed with exceptional tough-mindedness and a certain insensitivity.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

The war has saved my life.

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Nella vita c'era la giustizia come per la campagna le cattive annate

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos