Adversity Quotes

"Challenges are what make life interesting."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."

- Jodi Picoult

"My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore."

- Katie MacAlister

"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, ‘I want to know why!’"

- Shannon L. Alder

"But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on."

- Khadija Rupa

"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."

- Anthony Liccione

"And they can't understand, what hurts more — missing the other person, or pretending not to."

- Khadija Rupa

"I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart."

- Christie Brinkley

"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide."

- Charles M. Blow

"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves."

- Pema Chödrön

"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!"

- Israelmore Ayivor

"The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream."

- Azar Nafisi

"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

- Michael Jackson

"Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever."

- Michael Jackson

"I was a veteran, before I was a teenager."

- Michael Jackson

"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."

- Michael Jackson

"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."

- Michael Jackson

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

- Michael Jackson

"I want to heal the world, help our children and they hate me for it. They want to destroy everyone righteous."

- Michael Jackson

"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change."

- Monica Raymund

"It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with."

- Fergie

"Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Jeff Sessions are using their powers and offices to make life as difficult as possible for everyone from the transgender worker to the gay widower to the queer undocumented immigrant. These efforts are not about bathrooms or religious freedom; they're about driving LGBTQ people out of public life."

- Sarah McBride

"HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom."

- Ted Olson

"I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business."

- Vivienne Ming

"Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace."

- Gloria Steinem

"This stuff, this Mexican sludge, just grabbed you by the f–king heartstrings and tore me apart. All those years of snorting coke, and then I accidentally get involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"The first time I smoked, I didn't get high, but I did end up going to McDonald's."