Quotes About Adversity

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

The most humiliating word in the human language. But.

I was literally seeing stars, and every ragged breath I took felt like I was trying to breathe through broken glass. On the upside, my crush on Archer was totally gone. Over. Once a boy has slammed his kneecap into your rib cage, I think any romantic feeling should naturally go the way of the ghost.

Some days are diamond. Some days are stone.

woman must have a heart made of something tougher, or she dies when a first blow comes.

It's hard to live on the streets. In prison, you can be someone. Life has order if you know how to do time, and I know. I'm an expert. Living in a tent is a temporary thing. You do it until you go back to prison. That's just how it works.

Save your freedom for a rainy day," someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy's Bar in SoHo,

Haberlerin özelli?i bunlar?n hiçbir zaman sizin ba??n?za gelmemesidir.

I witnessed doom, though. It was around me. But at the time, I thought the bad luck of other people reaffirmed that I was doing okay.

A man has to accept responsibility for his life, no matter how hard it gets. That's what sets him apart from animals.

No, it's not okay to cry, because when dignity is all you have left you can't afford to lose it.

Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.

As much as I loathed pain, progress did not seem to come without it.

It was like being in a struggle for survival against a murderous foe, except I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

Todos sabemos que todo tendrá fin algún día, pero no podemos dejar que eso nos frene. No debemos dejar que nos impida vivir.

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.

So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.