Quotes About Adversity

No es una hoja de papel lo que hace a un hombre. Ni la cárcel lo que le deshace.

I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.

Part of her wanted to run. Never mind how flowing water was bound to take her to people eventually, all that was likely just a crock of Little House of the Prairie shit.

The world is hard and you can't have everything.

In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't, and plenty of them aren't in prison, either.

A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.

zivot je tezak, ako si slab.

Things slowed down for awhile. Sometimes that happens. The pot boils, and then, just before it can boil over, some hand — God, fate, maybe plain coincidence — lowers the heat. I mentioned this once to Wireman and he said life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.

Creo que una verdadera amistad siempre nos hace sentir este dulce sentimiento, ya que el mundo casi siempre parece un árido desierto y las flores que en él crecen parecen hacerlo en contra de todas esas circunstancias desfavorables

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

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

Countries that are defeated by their enemies often rebuild. But the countries that are destroyed from within—that's really the end of the line.

Whoever was at fault, the result was a broken home.37 By 1883, Keke and little Soso began a vagabond existence, moving house at least nine times over the next decade. And that was not the young boy's only misfortune

But if he imagined this gift from his enemies had driven a stake through the Testament, he was mistaken. It would never die.

I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man.

A man is known by the company he keeps. We all know that we can tell a great deal about people by looking at those they call friends. It is also true that we can tell a great deal about ourselves by what our friends do when we hit hard times.

Facing the reality of that painful season when it felt as though you were in a sandstorm with no skin is the key to becoming whole now.

Because of what a man is meant to be for his family, his society, and his God, he cannot allow failure and loss to destroy him. He should live knowing that such seasons are possible, and he should have a firm grasp on the truth that will help him rebuild.

A misfortune is a blessing that has not yet been recognised.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Nothing fails like success.

Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.

the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness.