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Quotes About Adversity

I had to know the stories these women had to tell," she explained, "because I wanted to understand very specifically what each one had to vanquish.
~ Andrew Solomon
Odd times to be a child in. An odd country, an odd life which he had no desire to make sense of. To endure, full stop, that was all he wanted.
~ Andrey Kurkov
race. She drives in close and uses her wheel spike to destroy Terencius's wheel.
~ Andy Griffiths
Security breeds stagnation.
~ Andy Warhol
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.
~ Andy Warhol
The worst pain you may endure, is the pain that you are forced upon, with good reason.
~ Angela Brown
Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue.
~ Angela Brown
This is good and hot. I remember you used to say that about someone I know. He shakes his head. Give it up, Scotts. That boat sailed, sank, and got towed. But... No. It ain't going to happen. He sits down next to me and I curl up next to him. Nicky, it's hard being a child of your divorce and probably the reason somebody is dead. Nick raises my head with his hands and looks at me and smiles. Life bites, baby girl. ...and sucks. Amen.
~ Angela Johnson
Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
~ Angelina Jolie
and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
~ Ani DiFranco
I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.
~ Ani DiFranco
Most of us have everything we need to get through a crisis; we just have to tap into it.
~ Anita Hill
It's a wonder any of us make it.
~ Anita Shreve
One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye.
~ Anita Shreve
Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.
~ Anita Shreve
It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.
~ Anita Stansfield
you have to look at life, feel it, face it, and deal with it.
~ Anita Stansfield
No matter how unjustly you've been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you'll get burned.
~ Anita Stansfield
person better and stronger, if they only take hold of what they're dealt and make the most of it. Or they can let it overtake them and destroy them. I've grown
~ Anita Stansfield
Wear them, they will make you brave.
~ Ann Brashares
Maybe the truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us you know, being happy isn't having everything in your life being perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. Making those count more then the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that's all we can ask for.
~ Ann Brashares
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
~ Ann Brashares
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
~ Ann Brashares
Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
~ Ann Brashares