Quotes About Adversity

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

Answer: Because it's Life, darlings! Every loaf of bread must have its heel.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly — not one.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Think healthy thoughts. Even if you have every right to complain, don't do it. If it's raining, learn to dance in the rain. You are the architect of your life. Please believe it and let that be the reason.

Don't let the weight of the world flatten your weave.

I hear the voice of my darkness, and I say thanks for sharing, lover, but I'm going to do the opposite of what you're saying.

There's a certain detachment sensitive people must maintain to endure the harsh realities of this world.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered. [Dean Harbinger Harrow]

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.

Bad times are good times to prepare for better times.

It has bloomed again, This flower that I thought dead. In one moment of despair And pain, I'd trampled it in the ground Upon this barren plain. Little did I know That it would rise again, This flower that I thought dead. My soul would need A surer weapon than despair To crush a thing so bright, so fair.

In times of crisis, it's wonderful what the imagination will do.

All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough

In due course, life returned to normal, as it always does in India, post earthquakes, cyclones, riots, epidemics and cricket controversies. Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.

The kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.' And

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We cannot prevent sorrow and pain and tragedy. And yet, when we look around us, we find that the majority of people are actually enjoying life!