Overcoming Adversity Quotes

“Only the harshest personal experiences open our eyes to the immaculate possibilities and the splendor of our world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every challenge of the human self expands the divinity of the higher self.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.”
― John Mark Green

“Life is not always easy, or fair. Contrast is a necessary part of our spiritual journey in this lifetime. Self-pity, or feeling defeated, is not the way to deal with it. Stay strong and move forward.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Someday you will rejoice your brave decision to come into the theme park of life refusing to settle for a mediocre ride on the merry-go-round. You chose to go on the big loop roller-coaster instead. So, stop sulking, raise up your hands and enjoy the thrill of the ride!”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Yes, it will be tough and that's the best part.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Do not succumb to the direction life bends you. Resist the wind, and win.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“It is a great sign of emotional maturity, when you can point a finger at another person's behavior, yet also realize that there are three more fingers pointing back at you.”
― Kianu Starr

“The shadows of life add depth and dimension to our journey, like route markers along our path. They are never intended to dominate our life with darkness, neither do they determine our ultimate destiny.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Maharaji, he would tell me repeatedly, “Ram Dass, love everyone and tell the truth.”
― Ram Dass

“Everything is fascinating. It’s fascinating that online Illuminism has so often attracted the wrong kind of people, and it’s fascinating to work out how to rectify the problem and find the right audience. Being fascinated by every problem and determined to overcome each one is the key to progress. Failing better is the dialectic in action. To adopt Nietzsche’s outlook, the greater the challenge, the greater the glory. The greater the resistance, the greater the will required to triumph over it. Frankly, our whole game is to find those people willing to accept the toughest challenges. For are those not the gods? And if people run away from the fight because it’s too daunting for them, then it’s no loss. They have simply proved they weren’t fit for purpose.”
― Thomas Stark, Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe

“Don't you dare give up. You are a divine being. A unique expression of the eternal life force. A miracle child. Get up and fight.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Contrast is the spiritual spice of life. It's a foolish mistake to assume that when the going gets tough, the magic must stop. The darkest, most difficult times are the most powerful for manifesting miracles.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.”
― Henry Fielding

“Take away your trials, and you take away the magnificent reward of overcoming. So face those trials head-on. Handle them one step, one decision, one good deed at a time. Remember, life is not a race to the finish; it is an invaluable growing experience.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“I had never been to war, but I knew what it was like to be prepared to face the enemy every day.
The difference was, my enemy wasn’t a faceless stranger. My enemy was someone I loved.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“In normal families love flows from parents to their kids. But that’s not how it felt in my family. As kids we were the ones who did the loving. Swallowing our needs came at a psychological cost. The river is not meant to flow up the mountain.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Forgive the naysayers for only being able to understand things at their own level of perception. We're all different. It's okay that some people are content with looking at their backyard, but you were meant to see the world.”
― Kianu Starr

“Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is to allow others to sort out their own problems, while accepting responsibility for our own, hoping we love each other enough to offer support when it's needed.”
― Kianu Starr

“If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.”
― Edith Pargeter, The Heaven Tree

“Never let others see you suffer. Some thrive off your pain. So, no matter how cruel life is, always be kind and smile. If you do that, god will grant you a reward greater than the suffering you endured.”
― Imania Margria, The Pacemaker

“Out there beyond this brief charmed circle, all around them, invading even our own minds, was something that disbelieved and destroyed and defeated. She knew it and recognized its power and yet she would never cease to deny it. In this moment of large weakness she suddenly knew large strength, a core buried deep within her that would refuse to be daunted by the outrageous blows or the niggling trifles human life was heir to.”
― Wilma Dykeman, The Tall Woman

“Let it be known: I did not fall from grace.
I leapt
to freedom.”
― Ansel Elkins, Blue Yodel (Volume 109)

“Victorious over the powers of Darkness and Ignorance, man becomes one with God.”
― Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science

“We can't lose our liberty, our freedom. Freedom is not just the absence of chains, it is overcoming the brutality of reality and despite it all, daring to be happy.”
― Mario Escobar

“My feelings were tangled up in knots. Guilt intertwined with innocence. Worry with calm. I had feelings I couldn’t name. But I believed that every human being had a right to live in peace.”
― Argita Zalli, Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak

“If our native country had become lawless, then surely, nothing was ‘wrong’ or ‘corrupt’ about us seeking refuge or citizenship in another country. At least we deserved the right to try.”
― Argita Zalli, Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak

“Always in the back of my mind a question burned. Was this it? Was this the moment I handed down the legacy and scarred them for life?”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“He seemed oblivious to the heat, though the back of his yellow t-shirt was darkened with sweat. This was how he wanted us to be. No mistakes. No fumbles. No feeling.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Sometimes I wished I could just hate Dad. But mostly it felt easier to believe I hated him rather
than face up to the fact that, despite everything, I had spent my life loving him, longing for him,
while he had barely even noticed I was alive.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War