#adversity

(Angelus) "Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left?" Buffy: "Me. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#buffy-the-vampire-slayer #confidence #independence #inspirational #spirit

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#friends #makes #prosperity #them #tries

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#becoming-better #trials-of-life #life

An ‘eye for an eye’ shall leave you all blind. It’s sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#strength-and-courage #strength-of-character #strength-through-adversity #beauty

No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #experience

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#survival #adversity

‎"Character is not measured by moments of success...It is measured by the grace in which you move through adversity ↗

— Lord Nelek 'Eternal Seduction'

#jennifer-turner #kerestyan #nelek #adversity

I believe in people getting what's coming to them but don't hold grudges either. We all hurt people, fail & hopefully grow from adversity. Basically, eat shit & thrive ↗

— Dane Cook

#adversity

It is has been a long time since I have written one of my statuses about life. I have been very busy trying to promote my Fan page, Friends and services, and my books. However, I can tell you all one thing for certain. I am not a Quitter. I will not stop writing books. I will not stop pushing myself to succeed. I will not stop being who I am. I am a winner. Winning is an attitude. You take the good with the bad and you keep on going. It gets hard, you get tired and sometimes burnt out but you keep on going anyway, because you can. Winners have setbacks, but winners learn tighten their belts and go on. Winner look at what has gone wrong and instead of complaining they find ways of doing it better. Winners know that Rome was not built in a day and take every day as it comes. Winners do not whine, they roar. ↗

— Alexander Stone

#spiritual #strength-through-adversity #uplifting #attitude

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty