Adversity Quotes

"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."

- Edvard Munch

"Exhaustion means going to the point where you can’t go any further; burnout means reaching that point and pushing yourself to keep going, whether for days or weeks or years."

- Petersen

"[Burnout is] the flattening of life into one never-ending to-do list, and the feeling that you’ve optimized yourself into a work robot that happens to have bodily functions, which you do your very best to ignore."

- Petersen

"Burnout occurs when the distance between the ideal and the possible lived reality becomes too much to bear. That’s true of the workplace, and that’s true of parenting."

- Petersen

"The mental part is the hardest part."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"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

"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."

- George Foreman

"To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who has never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind."

- Jerome Drayton

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

- Ronald Reagan

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."

- Ronald Reagan

"Ah, look at all the lonely people."

- The Beatles

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

- Judith Guest

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile."

- Judith Guest

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

- Ronald Reagan

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

- Muhammad Ali

"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone."

- Robin Williams

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

- Albert Einstein

"If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?"

- Judy Garland

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."

- Keanu Reeves

"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."

- Jodie Foster

"Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact."

- Hugh Howey

"Strange the lengths I’ll go to in order to keep people away from me, considering how lonely I feel most of the time. I guess that’s the strange torment I suffer: dying for company, for someone to talk to, but it’s never the right someone who shows. And an unwelcome presence is far worse than the miserable silence."

- Hugh Howey

"Just a handful of days like this and Jimmy felt a new Rule of the World: man wasn’t meant to live alone… he spoke with the machines instead. They clacked back at him and hissed deep in their metal throats that man wasn’t supposed to live at all."

- Hugh Howey

"Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?"

- Jack Gilbert

"If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams; he had his Revell models; he had a gigantic set of Lincoln Logs and built all sorts of stuff with them. His mother had exclaimed more than once that Ben’s Lincoln Logs houses looked better than some real ones that came from blueprints. He had a pretty good Erector Set, too. He was hoping for the Super Set when his birthday came around in October. With that one you could build a clock that really told time and a car with real gears in it. Lonely? he might have asked in return, honestly foozled. Huh? What? A child blind from birth doesn’t even know he’s blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. It simply was, like his double-jointed thumb or the funny little jag inside one of his front teeth, the little jag his tongue began running over whenever he was nervous."

- Stephen King

""Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.""

""Hills don’t go away. They wait.""

""Pain is weakness leaving your body.""

"Safety is gainful; accident is painful."

- Unknown

"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger; except for workplace hazards, if they don’t kill you, they can leave you with a lifelong disability."

- Unknown