Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

More quotations tagged with “adversity”

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

—John Churton Collins

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

—J. K. Rowling

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

—Henry Fielding

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

—Henry Fielding