Quotes About Adversity

Vast fortunes did that to people. It took them to the cleaners, cruelly starched and steam-pressed them so all their raw edges, all the dirt and hunger and guileless laughter, were ironed out. Few survived real money.

was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upwards, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous

War always takes you by surprise.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage... On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

On ne peut s'apitoyer sur soi que quand nos malheurs sont encore soutenables...une fois cette limite franchie, le seul moyen de supporter l'insupportable, c'est d'en rire.

That's life! Sometimes you're on the horse's back, and sometimes it's the horse that's on your back.

Sadece yaÅŸad???m?z talihsizlikler tahammül edilebilir olduÄŸu sürece kendimiz için üzülebiliriz. Tahammül s?n?r?n? a??nca, katlan?lmaz olana katlanabilmek için halimize güleriz.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Mileski had once been caught in a home burglary and had been shot in the leg by police. Afterward, he limped.

Thomas Paine's The Crisis—"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country . . .

his days were reduced to trying to stay alive and not to disgrace himself.

All had had close calls. They lived in what combat correspondent Dale Dye would later call "the high weirdness of survival when the odds say you should be stone dead.

The perfect wound was one that was not mortal, debilitating, or disfiguring, but that was bad enough to get you out.

but the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.

It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.

this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.