Quotes About Adversity

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

you have to look at life, feel it, face it, and deal with it.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.