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Quotes About Adversity

No matter what our situation is, there's always a way to celebrate life and there's always a way to start again.
~ Wilmer Valderrama
My life was pretty rough.
~ Yoko Ono
Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
~ Zainab Salbi
As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.
~ Joseph Finder
And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong
~ Justin Bieber
The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core
~ Justin Somper
You don't go through life, you grow through life
~ Kevin Ollie
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
~ Khaled Hosseini
I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
~ Kim Kardashian
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
~ Laura Schlessinger
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.
~ Lee Bennett Hopkins
The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.
~ Libba Bray
Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
~ Marianne Williamson
I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.
~ Marianne Williamson
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
~ Martin Luther
I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.
~ Megan Smith
Stop crying; stand up and look around you; there is always a way out in life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan