Quotes About Adversity

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate

She could sit here and cry for as long as she liked. She could crawl under the desk. She could run around in the parking lot. She could live big. She could make herself to do things that were hard. She could.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.              Ã¢â'¬â€Matt Groening

I continued going to school for a period of time until it became more difficult to hide it. The faculty decided that I was becoming disruptive to the schooling process and a bad example. It was determined that I would leave school. "I was not welcome there" was what I was told. My

Ann M. Martin

Ann M. Martin

Josh's arm was in a cast, and his face was covered with bruises. Mr. Freeman had a large bandage on his forehead, and Mrs. Freeman was on crutches. They looked as if the world had defeated them.

said that metal underwear thing.

Life is not fair, I had reminded myself. Everybody gets a bad break from time to time. The important thing is not what those breaks are, but how you deal with them. If I ever got as sick as Danielle, I hoped I could also be as cheerful and funny and realistic as she was.

I have usually found that, in life, good things are followed by bad things. One day you get an A-plus on a spelling test, the next time around you get a C (or worse). A run of good luck is followed by a run of bad luck. Good news is followed by bad news.

That was it for Pete. He bent

Vea con buen humor sus fracasos y no los tome muy en serio

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some.

Where are you and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without having any problems. Recognize that you are going to get out of this- that you always get out of this, that you are going to live, that you won't go crazy. I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives and untimely deaths. To these mournful narratives I am about to add the Life of Richard Savage...

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity

Where I a pris'ner chain'd, scarce freely drawThe air imprison'd also, close and damp,Unwholsome draught; but here I feel amends,The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and sweet,With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.Milton'sSampson Agonistes.

This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.