Navigating Adversity Quotes

When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

Life is a crisis - so what!

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe that anymore, not coincidentally two years after writing Eileen. I think that was the driving curiosity for me, thinking about real and fictional characters who could respond to that problem.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.