Adversity Quotes

"I'm going to miss that smile, I'm going to miss you my friend. Even though it hurts the way it ended up, I'd do it all again. So play it sweet in heaven, cause that's right where you want to be. I'm not cryin' cause I feel so sorry for you, I am cryin' for me."

- Toby Keith

"I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body."

- Chaz Bono

"For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity."

- Ted Deutch

"The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."

- German Proverb

"It ain't fair you died too young, like a story that had just begun. But death tore the pages all away. God knows how I miss you."

- Kenny Chesney

"Funny how the good ones go, too soon, but the good Lord knows the reasons why, I guess. Sometimes the greater plan is kinda hard to understand, right now it don't make sense. I can't make it all make sense."

- Luke Bryan

"Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy."

- Dan Gable

"Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans."

- Pete Buttigieg

"Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were."

- Haruki Murakami

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."

- Vince Lombardi

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours."

- Rita Rudner

"The death of a father is one of the supreme human crises."

- Leon Edel

"The death of a parent is one of the greatest losses we can experience in life. The hole it leaves in our heart can feel insurmountable."

- Elizabeth Berrien

"My pain is my badge of honor."

- Ray Lewis

"The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists."

- Ray Lewis

"Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room."

- Ray Lewis

"Daddy wasn’t there for me, so I had to GRIND every day."

- Ray Lewis

"I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back."

- Elvis Presley

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."

- Maya Angelou

"But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage."

- Maya Angelou

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

- Assata Shakur

"Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of 'wrong' ideas."

- Octavia E. Butler

"But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress."

- N. K. Jemisin

"All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system."

- Malcolm X

"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man."

- Frederick Douglass

"When Black women assert themselves, that somehow threatens people. This happens in retail situations, corporate offices, and school hallways. A Black woman can be minding her own business, and how she responds to provocation or even a random question will be used against her."

- Gabrielle Union

"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

"You were more than a friend, you were family. Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled."

"Isolation is the breeding ground for trouble."

"Adversity is just a bridge to a deeper relationship with God."