Quotes About Adversity

Como escribió Pons Prades, muchos de aquellos hombres y mujeres que habían cruzado los Pirineos con el pelo enmarañado, desaliñados, malolientes, con barba de pordioseros, el uniforme salpicado de sangre y plomo y el mirar de visionarios, no se sentían vencidos. Porque hay gente que no se rinde nunca, o no se acuerda de hacerlo

You have a saying in Spain: If all is lost, we may as well jump in the river.

Si te empeñas, tú mismo puedes ser tan peligroso como cualquiera que se cruce en tu camino.

No hay combatiente más peligroso que un español acorralado y con un arma en las manos.

Vino ajeno y miseria propia. El reposo breve de un guerrero.

Saber que la vida —dijo muy despacio— es una broma de mal gusto, llena de azares, enemigos y payasos que saltan con su resorte al abrir la caja, es lo único que proporciona temple suficiente para burlarse de todo

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

Esas son las tentaciones. ?No, esa es la vida. ?Tengo fuerzas para luchar contra las tentaciones. ?Si tienes fuerza para luchar contra la vida.

When you hear her say, 'What else can an old woman do on hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky, Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes. And you look on the cracks that begin around her eyes spread beyond her skin And the hills crack. And the temples crack. And the sky falls with a plateglass clatter around the shatter proof crone who stands alone. And you are reduced to so much small change in her hand.

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

32. O my enemy, afflictive passion, Endless and beginningless companion! No other enemy indeed Is able to endure so long! 33. All other foes that I appease and wait upon Will show me favors, give me every aid, But should I serve my dark defiled emotions, They will only harm me, draw me down to grief.

There's nothing that does not grow light Through habit and familiarity. Putting up with little cares I'll train myself to bear with great adversity!

If there's a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum?

Por lo tanto, un enemigo es tan deseable como un tesoro que, sin ningún esfuerzo de mi parte apareciera en mi propia casa, porque un enemigo es mi ayudante en el camino que conduce al despertar.

If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?

No matter what you have gone through, who has wronged you and what appears to be a loss, you get no recognition for your challenges unless you conquer them.

Don't temper with a turbulent river, you may never be found to celebrate your victory!

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

He shook his head. "Not a bit of it. When I arrived, I was small and dark and ugly. The perfect quarry for every bully. And then, one day, I grew tired of it. I had discovered that sarcasm and wit could be far more effective than fists. The duller-brained the boy, the more others laughed at my bons mots. And so I became a nasty bit of goods in my own way, fighting with words where I could not fight with fists.

There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.

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Wear your scars like jewelry cause they were bought with blood.