Quotes About Adversity

And I survived, while other men around me died. They were better men than I am, most of them: better men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else´s hate, or love, or indifference.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.

Her beauty was injured by the wound but not ravaged by it.

It's a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm. The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they'd never happened.

Sometimes the river of life takes you to the rocks. The letter

good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

I'd lost my family, the friends of my youth, my country and its culture—all the things that had defined me, and given me identity.

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I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.

But repression, they say, breeds resistance in some men, and I was resisting the world with every minute of my life.

When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.

it's better to die fighting than to die like a rat in a trap.

They became demi-heroes, and were moved to respond with special sales, reduced prices, and a carnival atmosphere. The ghetto was a living organism: to counter external threats, it responded with the antibodies of courage, solidarity, and that desperate, magnificent love we usually call the survival instinct.

Yoksulluk ve gurur, kan kardeÅŸ gibidir. Fakat sonunda mutlaka biri diÄŸerini öldürür.

Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.

modified his position by agreeing that suffering was not necessarily a sign of weakness, but insisting that we could toughen ourselves against it with a strong will; strength of will coming from strict self-discipline, a kind of self-imposed suffering. Farid added to his notion of suffering as an anti-

soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

It's a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.

And somehow, through those hours of fear and suffering and death, I found new ways and reasons to like the woman I already loved with all my heart.

Everything leaves a mark. Every blow echoes in the forest inside. Every injustice cuts a branch, and every loss is a fallen tree. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And