Quotes About Adversity

I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.

With us [...] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around.

Local loser. Cornerstone of mediocrity. Sexual midget. Pathetic cardplayer. And now weird-shit magnet on top of it.

Qué hijos de puta, pensó. Qué adorables hijos de puta. No me hagan feliz. Por favor, no me calmen y me dejen creer que algo bueno puede salir de todo esto. ¿No ven los moretones? ¿No ven esa raspadura? ¿No ven la herida que tengo dentro? ¿No ven cómo se extiende y me corroe ante sus ojos? No quiero volver a tener esperanzas. No quiero rezar para que Max esté vivo y a salvo. O Alex Steiner. Porque el mundo no se los merece.

Markus Zusak

Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque estén llorando a lágrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando y hallando.

Este chico puede conmigo. Siempre. Es lo único malo que tiene. Me rompe el corazón. Me hace llorar.

Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque estén llorado a lágrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando, hallando.

Jesse Owens?" Mr. Steiner was the type of man who was very wooden. His voice was angular and true. His body was tall and heavy, like oak. His hair was like splinters. "What about him?

This time, Mr. Steiner placed his hand on Rudy's head and explained, "I know, son —but you've got beautiful blond hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?" But nothing was clear. Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come. Two and a half years later, the Kaufmann Shoe Shop was reduced to broken glass, and all the shoes were flung aboard a truck in their boxes.

Sono perseguitata dagli esseri umani.

He is straight ahead, straight out, straight and hard, and ready to fight. Hope you're better than your brother, someone calls. It hurts me. Wounds me. I am. But not as much as that.

That one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Look for the good," Louise Weir had taught her sons. "The bad happens anyway.

I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me subhuman. But I could control how I treated others.

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are

We all have our little sorrows...and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.

Yes, but that's what grief often does: turns something impossible into something possible. Turns something unpreventable into the preventable.

But I keep going because I've learned over the past few months that as bad as things seem, they can always get worse.

fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured.

I said, Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

You've had setbacks, and you'll have others. It's not important how many times you've fallen. It's how many times you let God pick you up that matters.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)