Quotes About Adversity

It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.

that he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting

is morbid individualism that turns crises into tragedies.

Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans.

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. Those are people who crossed an ocean to come to this country.

You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has lost his shoes, and so belligerent no one will help him find them.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

IT IS one thing to accumulate woes bit by bit over the course of a lifetime. quite another to enter this world with impossible burdens, by no doing of your own, and find yourself unequipped to handle them and/or find that, despite every conceivable effort, they are mercilessly unshakable.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Suffer more now, suffer less later.

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

Qué era peor, nos preguntábamos entre nosotras, sentarnos y esperar la muerte con el rostro apropiadamente sombrío, o buscar una manera de ser felices a pesar de todo?

Vergüenza es caerte cuando nadie empuja.