Adversity Quotes

"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost."

- Erich Maria Remarque

"It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

- Oscar Wilde

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

- Jean Kerr

"They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck."

- Erica Jong

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do."

- Matt Walsh

"Darkness is at its deepest, just before sunrise."

- Voltaire

"No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do."

- Lisa Kleypas

"Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy."

- Jojo Moyes

"At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We’re sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them."

- Ken Wheaton

"Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other’s biggest champion and also their hardest critics."

- Erin Foster

"A sister will always notice her sister’s first gray hairs with glee."

- Allison M. Lee

"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater."

- Pam Brown

"Don’t talk about my sister; don’t play with me about my sister. If you do, you’ll see another side of me."

- Beyoncé

"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."

- Charles M. Schulz

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Washington Irving

"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."

- Habeeb Akande

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity"

- Albert Einstein

"The hardest fight comes from the opponent within."

- Garry Wasson

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."

- Will Rogers

"What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."

- Jim Collins

"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was . . . just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But . . . it was an outgrowth of everything we’d been doing since [1945]."

- James C. Collins

"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Tom, Tom, we’re lost! we’re lost! We never can get out of this awful place! Oh, why did we ever leave the others!"

"The boy was crying now. Not that there was any new or sudden sorrow. There just seemed to be nothing else to fill up the vast lostness of the moment."

"Happy birthday to me! Here’s to the heartaches that turned into lessons and the struggles that turned into strengths."

"Life is unfair- sometimes to our advantage, sometimes to our disadvantage. We will all experience disappointments and crushing events somewhere along the way, setbacks for which there is no ‘reason,’ no one to blame… What separates people… is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."