Adversity Quotes

""Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by stark moments of terror.""

- Al Boliska

""Thanks, TSA, I haven’t been touched like that since prom night.""

- Meaghan O’Connell

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by stark moments of terror."

- Al Boliska

"There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable."

- Cassandra Clare

"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."

- Haruki Murakami

"We have certainly created man into hardship. Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?"

- Quran

"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."

- Sarah Dessen

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

- James Baldwin

"Racism is man’s gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"And We have certainly created man into hardship."

- Quran

"The greatest reward comes with the greatest trial."

- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

"Verily, the patience is at the first stroke of a calamity."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."

- John Madden

"The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"You don’t overcome challenges by avoiding them. You overcome them by confronting them."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The unwise man is awake all night worries over and again. When morning rises he is restless still, his burden as before."

- The Havamal

"The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made"

- Tim Duncan

"You’ve never felt true fear until your passport isn’t where you think you left it."

"Worrying you’ve accidentally packed 3 kilos of drugs and an animal carcass as you walk through ‘nothing to declare’ at the airport."

"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."

"Do you ever stress about money and then accidentally book another flight?"

"I love when people say ‘just quit your job and travel’. Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford."

"My parents complain I travel too much. I mean, I could be a drug addict, do they realize how lucky they are?"

"Me: ‘I want to travel more’, the bank account: ‘like, to the park?'"

"Me: triple-checked packing list. Also me: forgets underwear, contact solution, and favorite chapstick."

"Packs two hours before leaving for a trip. Unpacks three months after coming home."

"The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost $17."

"Friend: let’s go to Bora Bora. Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora."

"Autism is not a choice, it’s a challenge."

- Anonymous