Quotes About Adversity

Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

There must be something that fascinates us more when things go wrong.

Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.

Mano gyvenimas yra šakotas, chaotiškas, ir be plano. Visi planuotojai nuved? pasaul? labai blogais keliais.

Jonathan Allen

One thing I like to tell my clients is that the Chinese word for failure can be interpreted to mean "opportunity.

His father was killed when he was only six years old.

True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.

Porque hay mucha oposición por parte de la carne, el mundo y el diablo

Licitis perimus omnes

Bad guys are supposed to lose. I change that. I win

Ali was everything everybody wanted their child to be, except some ignorant-ass white folks, and they don't count

You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

I don't want you to be safe ideologically. I don't want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different. I'm not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I'm not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that's the whole point of the gym. This is the gym.

We've all heard that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but that is a dangerous oversimplification. Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life.

Human beings need physical and mental challenges and stressors or we deteriorate.

The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For adversity to be maximally beneficial, it should happen at the right time (young adulthood), to the right people (those with the social and psychological resources to rise to challenges and find benefits), and to the right degree (not so severe as to cause PTSD).

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.