Adversity Quotes

"No one ever discovers the depths of their own loneliness until love leaves them."

- Leah Raeder

"We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for."

- David Foster Wallace

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

- Albert Einstein

"Nothing makes us lonelier than our secrets."

- Paul Tournier

"Perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis."

- Brené Brown

"Shame loves perfectionists — it’s so easy to keep us quiet."

- Brené Brown

"Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids’ life easy and making it hard."

- Brené Brown

"A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, “Get a boat!”"

- Daniel Quinn

"The worst poverty isn’t about not having enough money to survive. Real poverty is when there is no one in the world who loves you. When there is no other human to make you feel like you matter. As if you aren’t worth the air you breathe. Poverty of love is the worst thing you can be deprived of."

- Paige Dearth

"After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him."

- Jack Kerouac

"To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you’re likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you’re likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you’ll understand it."

- Valerie Owens

"There is much suffering in the world — physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."

- Mother Teresa

"And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient."

- Quran 2:155

"The last mile is always the hardest."

- Joseph Chamberlain

"My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

- Kanye West

"As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold."

- Kanye West

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

- Kanye West

"Old age is a shipwreck."

- Charles de Gaulle

"As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre."

- Philip Roth

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

- Josh Billings

"When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary."

- Walter M. Miller Jr.

"Why are there so many people here? There’s too many people on this Earth. We need a new plague."

- Dwight Schrute

"Rule number 1 patients die... Rule number 2, Medics can't always change rule number 1."

- FTO

"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 who make you feel alone."

- Robin Williams

"This is proof that Monday wants me dead... Wednesday wouldn’t do this to me. It’s laid back. Friday actually likes me! But Monday is a bitter, backstabbing treacherous day."

- Arthur Daigle, Goblin Stories

"Your voice as a parent is the most powerful tool you have. Use it to advocate for your child and make a difference in their world."

"It’s really not easy to be what you are, especially when people or “society” tend to categorize you this or the other."

- Unknown

"Some wounds don’t bleed—but they still break you open."

"Autism moms: advocates, educators, and the heartbeat of acceptance and understanding."