Adversity

We learn the ropes of life by untying knots.  

- Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity.

- Elizabeth Guizot

What ought one say then as each hardship comes?  I was practicing for this.  I was training for this.
- Epictetus (55 - 135AD)

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.
- Karen Salmansohn

I've never met a strong person with an easy past.
- Unknown

Just when the night was at its longest, darkest, and seemingly most interminable point, there came the calling of these amazing creatures to each. “Ok over here. Ok over there?” “ Yes, all set over here.” We really are not alone, even at the darkest part of our real, or figurative night.
- Helen Mae

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

- Bob Marley

For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

-Oceti Sakowin Camp quoting: Sitting Bull 12/02/2016 during Dakota Pipeline crisis

Boom - P.O.D. “Is that all you got? Take your best shot?”