Quotes About Adversity

Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.

I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

And I know things have to get worse before they get better.

Things get worse before they get better.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway...

He saw a baby elephant tied to a post with a steel chain. The baby ripped and scratched and tried to get free, but the chain wouldn't break. Then, he saw a grown elephant tied to a post with nothing but a little piece of rope. He asked his mother how the little piece of rope held the big elephant in place. She explained they chain the babies until they give up. The elephants think that little piece of rope is still a chain.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway…

we can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us

This is not a time for heroes because nobody will let that happen.

Not every one has a sob story and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Decía que el mundo podía intentar quitártelo todo una y otra vez. Pero que, al final, tenías que entregar tu orgullo.

Friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody

It's getting that bad again.

But you have to hear the end of the story - you have to know the wolf doesn't win.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big. a

Podemos tragarnos nuestro miedo o dejar que nos devore

Ti è mai successo? Ti è mai capitato di sentirti uno schifo, e poi ti passa, e non sai perché? Quando mi sento così bene, cerco di ricordarmi che ci saranno altre settimane tremende, prima o poi, e mi ripeto che dovrei immagazzinare quanti più dettagli possibili delle giornate grandiose, così, nei periodi bui, posso ripensare a essi e convincermi che sto di nuovo da Dio. Non funziona granché, ma penso che sia importante provare.

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear

Experience, the wise man said, is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but a horror to the muscles and a crime against the back.

There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road, He went into direful thickets, And ultimately he died thus, alone; But they said he had courage.

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats