Adversity Quote by Herman Melville

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

— Mary Webb

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

— Herman Melville

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the…

— Adam Ondra

Now follow me now, roll, stroll off deep in the land well, creep if you can, take another swig to the brain.

— Anonymous

Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the…

— Sidney Lanier

“I've always known, as I do now, I am inclined and unwavering. Like a abundance of flowing water, ripping through rocks and dirt, to…

— Sonia Valencia Singh

“If you are walking on a path thick with brambles and rocks, a path that abruptly twists and turns, it's easy to get lost,…

— Elyn R. Saks

I tramp a perpetual journey.

— Walt Whitman

“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy…

— Rebecca Solnit

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

— Tito Colliander

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave…

— Edvard Munch

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping…

— James Lane Allen