Quotes about Adversity
Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
- Paulo Coelho
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.
- Joel Osteen
Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.
- Yolanda Adams
All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.
- Mark Batterson