Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.
There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo
There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.
I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
Life was a storm to wander through.
There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
Life is not like a box of chocolates unless there's a few turds in the box.
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
