Quotes About Adversity

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

On peut mourir de faim ou de froid, mais si l'on en réchappe, on oublie son mal. Quand on n'aurait souffert qu'un seul jour de la honte, on en meurt toute sa vie.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.

But I don't want to be grateful. I'm tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it's no worse. I've had enough. It's time the pebble kicked back.

But easier, she reminded herself, was not the same as better.

Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look!

Lost: one bonnet, two clogs. Kept in spite of the odds: two thumbs, one life.

They understood something together at that moment, Makepeace and Bear. Sometimes you had to be patient through pain, or people gave you more pain. Sometimes you had to weather everything and take your bruises. If you were lucky, and if everyone thought you were tamed and trained... there might come a time when you could strike.

I got all my limbs," Mosca answered quickly. "I been knocked and scraped and chased about but my heart's still beating inside my hide.

You are dust, her eyes said. You are dirt. You are nothing. Why do you bother surviving? Why are you still alive? I am the dust in your eyes was the answer in Hathin's look. I am the dirt that will bury you. I am the nothingness waiting to open up under your feet. And I can hold on longer than you can.

You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.

It was as if somebody had found a gentle, dignified old lady whose friends were all dead and forced her to wear a funny hat.

if all we're left with is muck and wickedness and no gods, then we'd better face it and get used to it because it's better than a lie.

Perhaps the world has always been like this, Mosca thought as she pushed her way through the crowd. Like a broken honeypot that looks whole, but just holds together because the shards are resting in place and are glued together with honey.

She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.

When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word -- just to look at them and think. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wished they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in -- that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos, porque es un juego de contrastes. Los que nadan siempre por el espectro medio de las emociones nunca conocerán la esencia de la vida. Esa es la enseñanza del pozo: a veces hay que tocar fondo para entender la grandeza del cielo.

Lo peor que te ha pasado a veces puede ser lo mejor.

Keep turning the pages, go through the changes. Reach up and reach out and don`t give in or give up. Speak up and speak out and stand up and stand out. Keep turning the pages, go through the changes.

Japanse Spreuk: als je zeven keer valt, sta je acht keer op

Te puedes equivocar de camino tantas veces como necesites.

Debes prepararte para los desafíos que se avecinan.

afrontar tus problemas con valentía logrará sacar lo mejor de ti.