Quotes About Adversity

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls." "Don't

That's life," said Chains. "That's your one sure inheritance as flesh and blood. Nobody wins all the time, Locke.

Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated

Hardship is boring as hell. Gotta find laughs if you can't stay drunk.

If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

The world is full of conundrums that will tax your skills. Do you presume that you will always get to choose the ones that best suit your strengths?

Locke, Locke, we can't all be mad dogs with a blade in our hands, and it's nothing to sob about, so let's not see that lip of yours quivering like an old whore's tits, right?

Oh whatever it is bitch, I promise you it won't be easy." --Jean Tannen

Wars, disease, taxes. Bowing heads and kissing boots. There's plenty of hungry damn things prowling on land, Orin. It's just that the ones at sea tend not to wear crowns.

life's a bottomless feast of shit.

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.

Some of them were already obviously impaired in the fine art of standing up straight.

As of 2015, the Guinness World Record for long distance archery is held by Matt Stutzman, a Paralympic, armless archer.

Ramon Artagaveytia once survived a sinking ship in 1871. He was so scared from this experience he didn't get on another ship till forty one years later. Unfortunately for him that ship was Titanic.

You had to hand it to the devil: long odds never dampened his enthusiasm one bit. David

feet. The wild dog that had bitten her could have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and have modern medicine deal with it. In After, there were no insurance plans. She leaned against a tree, its rough bark rubbing her spine as she sneaked a look down the forested slope. The Blue Ridge Mountains were sheathed in October's mellow gold

Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory.

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Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

playing a game is a voluntary effort to overcome unnecessary obstacles.

I'm sorry, but this isn't a movie or a play—there is no convenient third-act rescue that gives us an easy solution. This is real life.

away—a sixty-mile round-trip with Hoel was about as much fun as a barbed-wire enema.

It ain't no broken.