Quotes About Adversity

He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

If you cave in today you're 2x as likely to cave tomorrow. If you so much say hello, you're finished. Don't even pick up the phone.

Steven Pressfield

How did you keep going all those years without any success?" I couldn't have answered at the time, except to say that I had no choice. Any time I tried to take the intelligent course, i.e., get a real job, I became so depressed I couldn't stand it.

Now eat a good breakfast, men. For we'll all be sharing dinner in hell.

RESISTANCE IS INTERNAL Resistance seems to come from outside ourselves. We locate it in spouses, jobs, bosses, kids. Peripheral opponents, as Pat Riley used to say when he coached the Los Angeles Lakers. Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.

RESISTANCE IS UNIVERSAL We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

They peck a man's asshole out, though God only knows why.

Seems he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that might just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you that. Just as sure as the turning of the earth.

Chapter 2: Managing Challenge

It's just a hard moment for him, a low point, not some soul-shaking crisis; you know those aren't sudden or public, they take years, worming inside you like a disease.

Siempre es el fracaso lo que nos sirve de lección, no el éxito.

Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another.

Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.

we must praise God no matter what is happening in our lives. We should praise Him even in the midst of suffering because it strengthens us and refines our faith in Him.

no temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Mounting Fears‡

A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man

Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.

Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me.

What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck.

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