Quotes About Adversity

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Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

There's that common expression that goes: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. But a knife is better than nothing.

After the worst had passed Ian dried his eyes and spoke of philosophy. It's like the world is awesome? And also it sucks.

El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado.

Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.

Did Mr. Poe write as a boy? Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world

If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.

takes a lot of spunk to spin gold from heartache, Mrs. Osgood. A lot of drive. Most of us can't do it. It's a mean world, Mrs. Osgood, mean and spiteful.

a barnacle on the yacht of prosperity

We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy of floating, we flex our muscles and learn to kick, propelling ourselves into deeper waters where we can't see the bottom or touch the side. There, in the deep, we stroke. Then, surprising ourselves, saving ourselves, we swim.

What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both. ~168

He stood pressed against the inside wall of the cupboard, clutching his knife, rigid with terror, but defiant.

No matter how bad the situation gets, or how low you feel, there is still one little grain of hope left in your heart, and that makes you strong. It forces you eventually to wipe away the tears, slap a bandage on your wounds, and reenter the fray.

Husband," she protested. "I can ride. I am not hurt." "Yer gown is torn and bloodied and ye've added yet another bruise to yer pretty face. Do no' tell me yer no' hurt," he said grimly, shifting her about before him until she was pressed snugly up against his groin. Satisfied with her position, he then gestured for the others to follow, and turned his horse toward the castle.

Ye ha'e to laugh at life's trials. It makes them lighter to carry.

What I've found is that the ones who had it rough when younger tend to bounce back better when life kicks them in the teeth as an adult, which you know happens to everyone.

Do not expect me to apologize for going what I had to, to survive. A lion doesn't feel guilty for eating a zebra.

Were you hurt? Is anything broken?" "Nay." She signed wryly. "But the snow went up me skirts so far me arse is a block of ice.

It was her experience that there were different kinds of people in the world; those who got kicked by life and kicked back, those who were kicked and turned to kick someone else, and those who were kicked and kicked themselves for it. She admired those who kicked back, and could live with those who kicked themselves, but Eshe had no time for those who were kicked and turned around and kicked someone else.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Life is difficult.