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Quotes About Adversity

Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"
~ Nicole Kidman
I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.
~ Nonito Donaire
My grandfather went through a lot in his life.
~ Novak Djokovic
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
~ Novak Djokovic
I've had my ups and downs in my private life.
~ Novak Djokovic
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
~ Pat Benatar
It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
~ Patrick Jones
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
~ Patrick Ness
It's not what happens in life, it's how you react to what happens in life.
~ Paul Blackthorne
My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.
~ Paul Henderson
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.
~ Paulo Coelho
He too knows how to lose.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.
~ Paulo Coelho
He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.
~ Paulo Coelho
He however knows when the enemy is stronger.
~ Paulo Coelho
We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.
~ Paulo Coelho
All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.
~ Peace Pilgrim
But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
~ Per Petterson
I Fall upon the thorns of life.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley