Quotes About Adversity

I have had, at a very good Paris brasserie, the misfortune to eat a single bad mussel, one treacherous little guy hidden among an otherwise impeccable group. It slammed me shut like a book, sent me crawling to the bathroom shitting like a mink, clutching my stomach and projectile vomiting. I prayed that night. For many hours. And, as you might assume, I'm the worst kind of atheist.

life keeps kicking out extra points regardless of how I play it.

Shockingly, people here, throughout the country, after being relentlessly screwed by history, are just as relentlessly nice.

if things look good today, they will most assuredly turn to shit tomorrow.

And I made things worse—far worse—in all the drearily predictable ways. Underscore that sentence.

And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse.

They were like waking up to what was being done to their malenky persons and saying that they wanted to go home and like I was a wild beast. They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they must have there education. And education they had had.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

Thus another émigré, the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, wrote, "If, despite everything, I should survive, then I owe it to Goethe.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Anthony Kiedis

Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.

A certain amount of brick-throwing might even be a good thing. There comes a moment in the career of most artists, if they are any good, when attacks on their work take a form almost more acceptable than praise. That happens at different moments in different careers.

Not all the fruits of Victory are appetising to the palate,' said Pennistone. 'An issue of gall and wormwood has been laid on.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent, while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. It's about removing the fear in this area of your life so you can focus on what matters most.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional "storms." How do they accomplish this? Most of them have a fundamental rule: In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution. Most important, don't sweat the small stuff… and remember, it's all small stuff!

The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism.

They think that everything happens for a reason, and it serves them. They believe that every adversity contains the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. I can guarantee you

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!