Adversity Quotes

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Agatha Christie

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -Frank A. Clark

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. -Mary Engelbreit

If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. -Author Unknown

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. -Robert Fulghum

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. -Erich Fromm

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. -Barbara Bloom

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. -Author Unknown

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? -Rose F. Kennedy

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. -Rona Barrett

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. -William Shakespeare

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. -Jewish Proverb

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -Harry Golden

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. -Walt Disney

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? -Rose F. Kennedy

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. -The Houghton Line

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. -Garrison Keillor

Turn your wounds into wisdom. -Oprah Winfrey

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. -Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. -Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

Adversity introduces a man to himself. -Author Unknown

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -John F. Kennedy

There is no education like adversity. -Disraeli

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. -Orson Scott Card

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin

Bad is never good until worse happens. -Danish Proverb

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. -John A. Simone, Sr.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. -The African Queen Movie

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. -Lee Drake

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. -Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. -Michel de Montaigne

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -African Proverb

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. -John Updike

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. -Bernie S. Siegel

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James K. Feibleman

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. -Norman Vincent Peale

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. -P.S. I Love You

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. -John Steinbeck

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