Quotes tagged ‘Overcoming Adversity’

“I painted this because I felt like the play was about life, you know? And life is full of color. And we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting, you know? And even though it’s not very big, the painting, you sort of have to figure that it goes on forever, you know, in each di…”

— Joe Lawson, Kay Oyegun, Kevin Pearson , Justin Hartley, imdb.com

“Life feels like Pac-Man sometimes, I guess. It’s the same game over and over again. Same board. Same ghosts. Sometimes, you get a bunch of cherries but eventually and inevitably, those ghosts catch up with you.”

— Shukree Tilghman, Jas Waters, Randall Pearson, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com

“Obstacles and challenges will not stop, yet you can see them in a different light, a sense of knowing everything in life is purposeful.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“I knew that a terrible thing was going to happen, and I also knew that it was going to be okay somehow. I thought that I couldn’t bear it, but then I found out that I could.”

— Kate DiCamillo, time.com

“Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull—that's how we grow as people.”

— Justin Roiland & Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez, imdb.com

“I don’t care about losing people who don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and i’m still doing just fine.”

— kingg-of-the-fall.tumblr, kingg-of-the-fall.tumblr.com

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“I am hundreds of little / red decisions scattered on the kitchen floor & so what / if they don’t all taste good.”

— Alexis Bates & Logan February, lunalunamagazine.com

“No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

— Chance The Rapper, genius.com

“Even at your worst you are fucking incredible.”

— Buddy Wakefield, genius.com

“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”

— Herbert Gasser, amazon.com

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com