Quotes About Adversity

Si tu ojo derecho te hace caer, sácatelo», dice el Señor.

La niña aprendió pronto una importante lección: que pobre no significa bueno, y que la generosidad entre los ladrones y los desfavorecidos es tan escasa como entre las personas con más suerte. Intentaron robarle muchas veces, procuraron hacerle cosas peores muchas otras. No siempre pudo evitarlo.

La aceptación serena de la tragedia, este pasearse tranquilamente entre el más acá y el Más Allá, es lo que daba al español de antaño su gravedad honda, su aplomo honrado y sufriente, su firmeza ante la adversidad. El español de antaño sabía que el más acá es un valle de lágrimas que hay que caminar con entereza, para ser digno acreedor de un Más Allá de caricias encendidas y venas vibradoras

Si te dan papel pautado, utiliza el otro lado.

Si te dan papel rayado, escribe de traves" "Bila mereka memberimu kertas bergaris, tulis di sebaliknya

Habría que escribir un libro útil, al alcance de todos, de instrucciones para la derrota. Eso... Porque yo no le puedo enseñar a nadie a ganar al ajedrez ni a nada. Tendría que ser una especie de recetario del perdedor vocacional.

The work can really bring out the worst side of you when you feel like someone else is ruining it. I can completely lose my mind.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.

It hurts," Nellie said. "I know," Reagan said. "No pain, no gain." "Do you think they made that expression up for bullet wounds ?

At Rainbow Cake, January's special flavors would be dark chocolate and coffee, those pick-me-ups we all needed to start the day- or a new year. To me, their toasty-toasty flavors said that even if you only had a mere handful of beans and your life went up in flames, you could still create something wonderful. A little trial by fire could do you good. After all, if it worked so well with raw cacao and coffee beans, it could work for others, including me.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Herhalde ünlü olabilmek için kötü bir çocukluk geçirmek gerekiyor diye düÅŸündü Anna.

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

The adversity at the brickyard was a reminder to me that love and bricks both need a slow, steady burn in order to become strong and withstand the test of time. I promise to tend the fire of love between us and never let it go out.

Each trial we experience, each of life's scars, can only mature us if we allow them to do so

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part was intact. On Thursday I picked up some pieces. On Friday I picked up the rest. By Saturday, late, It was almost set straight. And on Sunday the world was impressed With how well I had got it together.