Quotes About Adversity

My father believed that his own lack of pose and connections had led him being passed over in his career in favor of people of less ability. He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not as good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him. He used to warn me against such people.

One has to be grown up enough to realize that life is not fair. You just have to do the best you can in the situation you are in.

I have had a full and satisfying life. I believe that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn't precent them from doing and not regret those they can't do.

Después de que mis expectativas se hubieran reducido a cero, cada nuevo dia se convirtió en una propina y empecé a apreciar todo lo que tenia.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don't give up. There is a way out.

Der Weg aus dieser Falle ist der gleiche, wie der aus jeder brenzligen Lage: Wir schlagen so hart und so schnell mit dermaßen viel Feuerkraft zu, dass die sich wünschen, sie hätten sich einen anderen Job ausgesucht.

Most bad things don't happen.

Stephen Hunter

That is why heroes are always so tragic, in the end. They are alone.

Ich hasse Schlangen«, sagte Russ. »Verdammt, Junge«, versetzte Sam, »das sind doch bloß Eidechsen ohne Beine.«

one octogenarian "grandfather" who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

The turtle couldn't help us.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.