Quotes about Adversity

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

But if life could be worse, didn't that mean it could also be better?'" As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.

Plan for the very worst, then pray for the very best. Savor the days when the sun shines, but have your raincoat and boots ready for the storms that will always blow in from the bay.

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery.

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.