Quotes about "adversity"
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us..... And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
