Quotes About Adversity

Everything in your world has vanished. You have no money, no job, and no hope of finding one. That's how it is for thousands of people here. Please don't forget that feeling.

Gretta Mulrooney

Það bíður manns ekki - svona erfitt líf aftur? - heldurðu það?

I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

J'ai toujours tâché de vivre dans une tour d'ivoire; mais une marée de merde en bat les murs

n'aimait la mer qu'à cause de ses tempêtes, et

She did not believe that things could present themselves in the same way in different places, and since the portion of her life lived had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better. Chapter 3 The

De todas las borrascas que caen sobre el amor, ninguna lo enfría y lo desarraiga tanto como las peticiones de dinero

Mais c'était surtout aux heures des repas qu'elle n'en pouvait plus, dans cette petite salle au rez-de-chaussée, avec le poêle qui fumait, la porte qui criait, les murs qui suintaient, les pavés humides; toute l'amertume, de l'existence lui semblait servie sur son assiette, et, à la fumée du bouilli, il montait du fond de son âme comme d'autres bouffées d'affadissement.

Happy indeed are those to whom nature has given a thick skin and the armour of stoicism!

as eager to attack as they were ready to take to flight;

cuando se es valiente, esto no ocurre ni ante un ataque, ni ante la muerte inevitable, ni ante todas las formas conocidas de peligro: ocurre en ciertas circunstancias anormales, bajo ciertas influencias misteriosas frente a riesgos vagos. El

One may fall, perhaps, because there are ditches along the wayside and it is not always easy to follow the right path. But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

We like to believe, or pretend, we know what we are doing in our lives. It can be a lie. Winds blow, waves carry us, rain drenches a man caught in the open at night, lightning shatters the sky and sometimes his heart, thunder crashes into him bringing the awareness he will die. We stand up, as best we can under that. We move forward as best we can, hoping for light, kindness, mercy, for ourselves and those we love.

not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Trying to minimize weakness doesn't produce strength.

Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. —English proverb

An economic depression or a pandemic could occur. You never know. . . .

As Marilyn Monroe said, "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.