Quotes About Adversity

Il ne faut pas considérer les obstacles comme une réalité immuable. Il faut les affronter et voir s'il est possible de les surmonter.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Lagrange was born in Turin (now Italy), but his family was partly French ancestry on his father's side, who was originally wealthy, managed to squander all the family's fortune in speculations, leaving his son with no inheritance. Later in life, Lagrange described this economic catastrophe as the best thing that had ever happened to him: Had I inherited a fortune I would probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.

Podía soportar la soledad y las humillaciones que conocía desde niño y sólo herían su espíritu: lo horrible era el encierro, esa gran soledad exterior que no elegía, que alguien le arrojaba encima como una camisa de fuerza.

Cuando las cosas no tenían marcha atrás, no valía la pena perder el tiempo preguntándose si hubiera sido preferible que no ocurrieran. Mejor tratar de enrumbarlas por el buen camino. Siempre era posible enderezar lo que andaba torcido. ¿No era está la mejor enseñanza de Cristo?

Hasta la lluvia andaba jodida en este país. Piensa:

No les guardo rencor, estoy acostumbrado a la incomprensión de la gente. ¡Hasta siempre, señores!

Estoy perfectamente entrenado para eso, niña mala. En cuestión de cuernos y abandonos, sé todo lo que hay que saber y todavía más

probar que hay sitio para la esperanza en las circunstancias más difíciles, es algo que la literatura ha sabido hacer, aunque

But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.

Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday

Some people don't want to be sober. They don't want reality. After life trips them, they choose to stay facedown in the mud.

I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

As I scaled some rocks, I didn't move out of the way in time as a wave crashed to shore and I got soaked up to my shins in icy water. I could forget about a Russian vor; I was going to look like Tom Hanks in goddamn Cast Away by the time I arrived.

There's no human way to get to it, not even with all the dynamite in the world. So you leave it at that. And you move on.