Quotes About Adversity

But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.

I wonder at how many of us, feeling unsafe and unprotected, either end up running far away from everything we know and love, or staying and simply going mad. I have decided today that neither option is more or less noble than the other. They are merely different ways of coping, and we each must cope as best we can.

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.

Suffering builds character." He said that if you are always lolling around and being pampered and life is too easy, then you turn into a spineless wimp, but if you encounter suffering, you learn to face challenges and you get stronger. It sounds like something a grandparent might say, doesn't it?

I took a lot of wrong turns to find out who I really was. You will, too. (Page 19)

But you gotta do what you gotta do till you can do better.

The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.

I've never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns.

To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

If that's how you'd rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet.

The Welsh do make the worst enemies. They do not play by your rules, they win when they're not supposed to, and they do not know when they're beaten.

back all he'd been

In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!

Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

I just sit there. The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.

Delete, delete, delete. No way am I letting their negativity mess me up. I have enough to worry about.

As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened," Mark Twain once said.