Quotes about Adversity

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Winds of adversity may have blown through your life. Your world may be falling apart. But if you will look closely enough, you'll see the light of God's faithfulness shining through the debris.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

But it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.

The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!