Adversity Quotes

"Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked, and Mother’s Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure."

- Brittainy C. Cherry

"Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it’s the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially."

- Cindy Margolis

"It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, “Maybe I won’t have kids,” and quite another to be told, “Maybe you can’t.” This is how impatience turns to desperation."

- Peggy Orenstein

"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."

- Anthony Burgess

"When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"On that day, I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’"

- Jesus, Matthew 7:23

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

- George Eliot

""Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.""

- Alfred A. Montapert

"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."

- Alan Bleasdale

"A man has reached middle age when he's warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police."

- Henry Youngman

"There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it."

- Muhammad Ali

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip, that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence."

- Dawn French

"The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Let's just assume everyone in here doesn't like me."

- Flynn Rider

"No, no, no—can't be. I distinctly remember, your birthday was last year."

- Mother Gothel

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is bad. This is very, very bad. This is really bad … They just can't get my nose right!"

- Flynn Rider

"You are not leaving this tower EVER!"

- Mother Gothel

"Oh, it was easy, really, I just listened to the sound of complete and utter betrayal and followed that."

- Mother Gothel

"You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Now I'm the bad guy."

- Mother Gothel

"The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it!"

- Mother Gothel

"Sorry Rapunzel.. We were in this together. But if I can't have a happy ending, No One Can."

- Varian, S1

"My office culture? Pretend to work while others pretend to care."

"A good office is like a good sandwich—full of stuff you like and things you don’t care about."

"Office coffee is like office gossip—strong, bitter, and never enough."

"Overworked and underpaid. Is that the American Dream?"

"I wish my job had a snooze button."

"My work is so much fun, I forget I’m working—until I look at my paycheck."

"I’m not overworked. I’m just underpaid for what I do."