Quotes About Adversity

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The dictatorship did not elate me, nor did exile depress me.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Meg, I give you your faults. My faults! Meg cried. Your faults. But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults! Yes, Mrs. Whatsit said. However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, Mrs. Which said. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

We are going to your father, Mrs. Which said. But where is he? Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.

Thee onnlly wway ttoo ccope withh ssometthingg ddeadly sseriouss iss ttoo ttry ttoo trreatt itt a llittlle lligghtly.

On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

A village is very much like boarding school (I was in boarding schools for ten years, so I know whereof I talk): let any threat come from outside, and everybody, old and new, Republican and Democrat, white-collar worker or blue, will band together. Perhaps that is what our divided world needs now: a threat from outside. Certainly, as one good American said, if we do not hang together we will hang separately.

We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.

In this fateful hour, it was herself she placed between us and the powers of darkness.