Quotes About Adversity

I am a human being and the bashing has taken its toll.

I was in the Spurs team and in the Ireland team when I got it and I admit it took its toll on me when I came back. But look, there were many, many people worse off than me.

Some stories don't get told. Some stories you hold on to. To stand and watch and hold it in your arms was not cowardice. To look straight at the beast and feel its breath on your flanks and not to turn--one could carry the world that way. They sat together, the four of them, a little longer, before Harry rose slowly to his feet. It was Thursday. It was the end of the afternoon. It was time to pick up and carry on to the other side of the day.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

I have no parents: I make the heaven and earth my parents. I have no friends: I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

One enemy at the time.

I found a big groove ready waiting for me when I grew up, and in that I was expected to live whether it suited me or not. It did not suit me. It was deep and narrow, and gave me no room to move.

All living seems to be changed — It's as though the sky will never be clear again —

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".

Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.

You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth.

Only you can decide what breaks you .

I've crashed into another bad wall of karma and in the process lost my lightness of being.

What fails to kill me will kill me eventually.

If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt.

we must all learn to do things we don't want to do. You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.