Adversity Quotes

"Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting."

- Paul Monette

"This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate."

- Tyler Oakley

"There are worst things in life than kissing boys."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man."

- Fëdor Dostoevskij

"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

- Buddha

"All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction."

- Buddha

"The root of all suffering is attachment."

- Buddha

"Suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering."

- Gautama Buddha

"You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger."

- Buddha

"It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth."

- Beatrice Sparks

"People you hate are like slinkys they're not good for anything but you cracked a smile when you push them down a flight of stairs."

- froggojumper

"Don't forget, you're here forever."

- bife_de_lomo

"Remember: every corpse on Mt. Everest was once a motivated person."

- InkIcan

"In the same spirit, the early worm gets eaten by the bird."

- dmlane

""This is the worst day of my life" "The worst day of your life SO FAR""

- SuspiciousChair8918

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"My health teacher back in high school used to frequently say “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”"

- zray312

"In my experience, it’s more like, life’s a bitch and you go on living."

- SnooChipmunks126

"God gives us difficulties to bring out the best in us"

- Elder Marvin J. Ashton

"Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of."

- Johnny Bench

"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Winston Churchill

"So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you’re underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. but there’s no better job in the world."

- Adam Kay

"You have died of dysentery."

- The Oregon Trail

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

- John F. Kennedy

"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy."

- Tertullian

"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."

- Arthur Miller

"Recovery is a challenge, but it’s not as difficult as continuing to live the wrath of an eating disorder."

"When you starve yourself, you feed your demons."