Quotes about Adversity
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
- Joyce Meyer
Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.
- El-P
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
- Paulo Coelho
Mass celebrated on the hood of a jeep with shells bursting all around is as much the Mass as the liturgy celebrated in St John Lateran by the Bishop of Rome himself.
- Thomas Howard
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
- Thomas Merton
Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By calamity.
- Thomas Merton
But true faith must be able to go on even when everything else is taken away from us.
- Thomas Merton
by which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All
- Thomas Merton
For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.
- Kathleen Norris
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
- CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- CS Lewis