Quotes About Adversity

Dunkle problemer er lys og luft for vår stribare rase. Hissige diskusjoner er et tegn på sunnhet og fred i sinnet. Problemer vokser opp av alt som skjer. De klekkes ut av vinterkulden, de blomstrer frem av sommervarmen, de oppstår av velvære og illebefinnende, av ensomhet og menneskevrimmel.

Cuando todos gritan contra ti es suficiente que una sola persona luche por ti para que recuperes tu fuerza, tu capacidad de lucha.

Non si sa mai cosa la vita ci metterà davanti,» diceva sempre suo padre. «Ma quello che sai, è come l'affronterai.»

A human life is an endless process of becoming, a constant dance between character and circumstance.

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.

Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w g??bi serca wszyscy jeste?my egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same mod?y: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

is great satisfaction," he wrote in his journal, "of having done your darnedest against tremendous odds… even if you are beaten in the

And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering…that the world can't take away from you.

No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home.

Blaiston Street is the kind of area where no-one has ever paid any rent, where even the little comforts of life go only to the strongest, and plague rats go around in pairs because they're frightened.

I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

Despite the willingness of people in Nagorno-Karabkh to wander through minefields, they seemed to be a surprisingly long-lived people.

A wave of nausea seized him and Macro feared that he might pass out. 'The fuck I will,' he growled to himself. He

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid

No one had a clue what they were up against: They were marching blindfolded through molasses. And

the cats and dogs here at the shelter amazed him so much. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.

It's those little things you can't control that ruin everything.

This attitude was the main reason the cats and dogs here at the shelter amazed him so much. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman