Quotes About Adversity

Nadie que de verdad se encuentre del lado de la humanidad podría ponerse del lado de algo así. Nadie que pretenda prosperar podría permitirse quedar poseído por algo así. Y si piensas que los hombres duros son peligrosos, espera a ver de lo que son capaces los débiles.

todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad.

The delinquency spreads, not the stability.65 Down is a lot easier than up.

Follow what you're interested in, yet, it will take you over to adversity and then it will transform you from a citizen into an individual and then the doors will open again and at that point, you're strong enough to have your life.

After a few days of this degeneration, I decided to take the spoon back. I prepared for war. I set aside sufficient time. A patient adult can defeat a two-year-old, hard as that is to believe. As the saying goes: "Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.

He said he had parents who were desperate anti-social alcoholic addicted friendless and that they didn't want him to leave their home. He was the only relationship they had and he asked what he should do and I told him that he should leave.

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity

nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

With love, encouragement, and character intact, a human being can be resilient beyond imagining.

Tolkien's Bilbo must become a thief before he can become a hero. He must incorporate his monstrousness, so that he can supersede his naive harmlessness, before he is tough enough to face the terrors that confront him.

Lo desconocido es el enemigo eterno del Homo Sapiens y su mayor amigo, que desafía constantemente la facilidad individual para la adaptación y la representación, que empuja constantemente a hombres y mujeres mayores profundidades y hacia cimas más altas.

Everyone's life is a tragedy

With love, encouragement, and character intact, a human being can be resilient beyond imagining. What cannot be borne, however, is the absolute ruin produced by tragedy and deception.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change, he changes you.

Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out...

But just because you get distracted by the silver lining for a little while, that doesn't mean there's not still a huge dark cloud behind it.

Los pobres nunca salimos de pobres, pero a veces eso también nos mantiene a flote.

Y no olvide lo peor: que este país es la hostia, y nosotros, usted,yo, tendremos que espabilarnos igual. El enemigo del pueblo es siempre el poder.

La vida se les caía encima y ellos miraban todo con ojos de no entender por qué.

Je?li odlecisz za daleko, mo?esz po?ama? skrzyd?a.

Sé fuerte, sé fuerte, pero después cede y rómpete.

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.