Quotes about Adversity

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

We are stronger in our broken places.

The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.

But, then, nothing is easy.

Do you want to keep your knee, young man?' 'No', I said. 'What?' 'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.