Quotes About Adversity

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

Faith is learned through life.

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Riley B is a permanent pain in my a** in the game of life

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Scars are but evidence of life.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.