Quotes About Adversity

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?