Quotes About Adversity

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Failure is doing nothing about a problem that bothers us. If our efforts don't go as we hoped, we still learn and can take a new approach next time.

Some days you control life; other days life controls you." Philip

Hey, Mom, what's new?" "By God, today it's raining and foggy." "Foggy" meant security forces were present. "Raining" meant they're shooting. "Storms" meant shelling. And we were saying all of this in the heat of summer!

Hama today is nearly without men. There are only women and old people. My sister calls it "the Widow City.

In Italy we were placed in a refugee camp, but then managed to escape. We found a Syrian guy who agreed to drive us to Denmark for 500 euros per person.

I was thrown in jail in Hungary, but it was like a five-star hotel compared to my time in our jails in Syria.

We've accepted the fact that we need to make our dreams smaller if that's what it takes to keep dreaming.

We had money, but there was nothing to buy. Instead, my husband would collect grass and leaves and we'd fry them in olive oil.

I was arrested in my second year of medical school and spent five months in prison. I was home recovering when ISIS showed up.

Please do not make me reach for my inner Annie Oakley because she often hangs out with my inner Calamity Jane.

And I suppose in a way you have to hand it to the ex-East End orphan named Lily Shiel. Just what to hand her, I'd be hard put to say.

What defines us isn't how we behave when things are good, Andrew, but how we respond when they aren't.

Getting older is definitely not for sissies." But then neither, it seemed, was marriage.

Like Pig-Pen from the Charlie Brown comic strip, her cloud hovered over her, dark and daunting and devoid of a silver lining.

Women survived heartache and disappointment all the time, and daily demands that men could never fathom.

The storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength. —Ho Chi Minh

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.