Quotes About Adversity

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

Rejection is a part of any man's life. If you can't accept and move past rejection, or at least use it as writing material - you're not a real man. -Master Jiraiya

Dans la vie contente toi d'avancer même si ton chemin est celui du carnage

Les gens ne pleurent pas parce qu'ils sont faibles, ils pleurent parce qu'ils sont forts depuis trop longtemps

They had had about enough time to get their bearings and blow up one train when they ran out of food supplies.

Exhausted, he realized that he couldn't fight such power. The only thing he could do was go with the flow.

Okay… This looks bad. You cowboy around with the Avengers some. Guys got, what, armor. Magic. Super-powers. Super-strength. Shrink-dust. Grow-rays. Magic. Healing factors. I'm an orphan raised by carnies fighting with a stick and a string from the Paleolithic era. So when I say this looks "bad"? I promise you it feels worse.

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor, God of Thunder

you fall flat on your face and find yourself in an embarrassing position, just joke about it because in the big picture it is NO BIG DEAL. By laughing

Create 3 or 4 stories that include the 10 steps above. If you already have a few stories, improve on them and make sure they have the 10 steps in them.

Repeated rejection causes us to lower our sights; an unbroken string of successful seductions encourages us to aim a little higher. But it is worth it to get off the Red Queen's treadmill before you drop.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes...?

Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

believes the world is against him. Nothing

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Falling is easy. It's the landings that rip you up.

Keep digging and you'll always discover a new low.

How can we choose to continue Playing this deadly And impersonal game of loss?

Now I think about how much shutting off was required, just to exist in day-to-day experience. You couldn't express shock at everyone dying right in front of your eyes, because shock felt like a form of cruelty. So you would act like everything might be okay, even when nothing was okay.

We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.