Quotes About Adversity

am talking about the freedom that comes from choosing to remain open, as my mother did, to life itself, whatever it may bring: joys, sorrows, triumphs, failures, suffering

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

silently against Michelle's robust shoulder, until I learned that tears were of no value. There was no escape for us from the dank walls and rigid

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

Who cares whether the heroine wins if there wasn't any battle?

But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities—and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.

Was a great enemy as much a part of a man's life as a great friend? Surely it must be. It must be the cross thread in the fabric of emotions.

Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.

But that horror had brought out the strength in her, as it had in so many other women.

Self-pity does not become you, nor does it serve any purpose

They could not find the light if they had not the courage to explore the darkness.

If she protected him from this one, then how would he be armed or prepared for the next, or the one after that? Without pain, how would he learn compassion? If it were easy, of what value was it?

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.

sometimes it's not the errors you make but how you recover from them that mark the difference between failure and success

I do not wish to be protected from life. I think we might miss a great deal more of the good, and the bad would find us anyway. At least the sense of emptiness would. I think I would rather eat something unpleasant now and then, than perish of starvation sitting at the table because I was afraid to try.

Only the quick-fingered, the strong and the lucky reached adulthood. Monk could not afford to indulge in judgment

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your enemies always said you might.

Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse. By the time I reached the castle gates; I think I was not Lestat. I was someone else altogether.

God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we've never dreamed. Let's trust that that is what is happening here for each of us.

Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?