Quotes About Adversity

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

We cannot grow without challenge. Challenges routinely produce crises that severely test us. However, crises also offer us the greatest opportunities. People going through tough times typically feel isolated, and unsure what to do. When I face a crisis, I try to keep in mind a few simple concepts: we cannot control our destinies, but we can help to shape them; we must try to make life hop a bit, but we must also accept that we can only do the best we can.

I discover two small holes in the floor, which explains the constant dribble of water into the raft. I probably sat on my knife when I abandoned ship. That would also explain some of the lacerations in my lower back. The patching kit contains glue and pieces of raft material. The instructions tell me to make sure the raft is dry before applying patches to it. Good joke!

To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are. It is in facing the challenges of the wilderness that the thickness of your wallet becomes irrelevant and your capabilities become the truer measure of your value.

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving.

some relatively brief survival experiences were in many ways more challenging than some lengthy ones. What is important about an event is not its duration but what survivors discover from the journey.

After the capsize, it takes them an extraordinarily long time to learn how to become a survival team, and it never works flawlessly. They are not varnished heros. At times they are fearful, weak, defeatist, petty, jealous, self-interested. Frankly, I believe how Jim reveals all the lesser but very normal human qualities that are impediments to grace makes this crew more believable than the characters found in many tales.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

Décadas de estudios han demostrado que un niño que nace en un entorno familiar adverso tiene muchas más probabilidades de convertirse en un delincuente.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. —Anonymous

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, Thank God, I'm still alive. But of course, those who died-their lives will never be the same again. -Barbara Boxer, representative from California

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. —Ovid

Ouch,' she mumbles. 'Somebody's superglued my joints.

if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.

In his diary, Tudor noted that he had lost nearly four thousand dollars with his tropical misadventure.

Being wrong on its own doesn't unlock new doors in the adjacent possible, but it does force us to look for them.

It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

The United States is in a tough spot.

as Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow, "It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you've ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you've completed something. And if it's dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.

To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was

Todo el mundo le había rechazado, obstaculizado o se había opuesto a él.