Quotes About Adversity

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.

As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

Could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them? Go back to the okiya, Sayuri, Mameha told me. Prepare for the evening ahead of you. There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.

I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.

Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are.

Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground. My whole purpose in everything during the past ten years had been to win the affections of the Chairman.

Zar loš na?in života ne bi svakog u?inio zlo?estim? Dobro se sije?am kako me je jednog dana u Yorodiu jedan dje?ak gurnuo u grm prepun trnja, uhvatio me takav bijes da bih bila u stanju gristi. Ako me nekoliko minuta bola moglo dovesti do takvog bijesa, što bih tek u?inile godinje patnje? ?ak se i kamen može udubiti ako ga dovoljno dugo udaraju kapi kiše.

Desde el día en que me había marchado de Yoroido no pensaba sino en que cada vuelta de la rueda de la vida traería un nuevo obstáculo a mi paso; y, claro está, eran los obstáculos y las preocupaciones lo que le había proporcionado a mi vida su intensidad.

Me mordí el labio y contuve el llanto tan instantáneamente que creo que las lágrimas se pararon en seco a medio camino de mis mejillas.

I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

I could never have imagined that I - a slave terrorized by Hatsumomo's wickedness- had lived a relatively fortunate life through the Great Depression. But that day I realized it was true.

Dem Elend, das in uns wohnt, können wir natürlich nicht entfliehen.

El destino no siempre es algo semejante a una fiesta al anochecer. A veces no es más que la lucha por sobrevivir día tras día.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

Trgovac koji ostavlja otvorene prozore trgovine ne može se ljutiti na kišu koja mu je uništila robu.

There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.