2,568 Quotes About Adversity

The more troubles one goes through, the more kind he is.

Troubles come only to check whether you are capable of success or not.

No adversity can degrade you until you choose to degrade yourself.

It is only in adverse circumstances that we can meet our highest potential if we do not lose courage.

The generous spark extinct revive,Teach me to love and to forgive,Exact my own defects to scan,What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man.- Hymn to Adversity

But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream...

Through adversity comes bitterness or wisdom.

I tried to run from my sorrows and the damn bastards took my legs -I lay wide awake, no where to go, just myself, my mind and a pen.

It is a plain and simple truth that one must endure the harshness of thorns in order to fully appreciate the beauty of a rose.