Quotes About Adversity

Resilience Practicing Self-Care To Avoid Burnout The Illusion of Control Patience and Perspective Resilience In The Face

When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Next card: 'The right answer is to walk away, but I ain't weak. I've seen what happens to weak people.

That was bad news. Terrible. The worst.

It almost seems as though some very intentional, finely tuned plot against us intends to rob us of who we are in Christ.

He who lives in us is greater! Sometimes we forget that we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities and evil powers (Ephesians 6:12). We desperately need to remember whose we are and how to fight.

I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12

So their relationship entered a new phase, characterized by enmity round the clock. True, they had fought all along—there had been the gladiatorial contests in which she would snatch up any handy weapon to even the odds. But that sort of combat was almost a sporting thing: it seemed the natural way to close their arguments, just as war is said to be an extension of politics, statecraft.

Davis told him, and went on to suggest that necessity be made a virtue and a source of strength.

You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot

Misfortune often develops secret foes," Davis had said in a letter written earlier that week to Lee, "and oftener still makes men complain. It is comfortable to hold someone responsible for one's discomfort.

It must have been the sense of having done his whole duty, and expended upon the cause every energy of his being, which enabled him to meet the approaching catastrophe with a calmness which seemed to those around him almost sublime.

career-interruption event

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.

Existe el jardín. Y existe la cizaña. ¡Y a menos que seas despiadado, la cizaña siempre gana!

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Listen. I don't know how or when My grieving will end, but I'm always Relearning how to be human again.

Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly.

Survival = Anger × Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.

La pobreza no te hace fuerte ni te da lecciones de perseverancia. No, la pobreza sólo te enseña a ser pobre.

How does one survive these revelations? One just lives.

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?

My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss. And loss.

People can do things completely against their nature, completely. It's like some tiny earthquake comes roaring through your body and soul, and it's the only earthquake you'll ever feel. But it damages so much, cracks the foundations of your life forever. So