Quotes About Adversity

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

In any case, I wrote, I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't some­ thing that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.

Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel any pain anymore that you're in real trouble.

Don't let the bad elves get you.

El mundo no se pone patas arriba tan fácilmente. Las que están patas arribas son las personas.

Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.

Cuando la realidad te golpea es como si de pronto, en alta mar, te arrojasen por la borda en plena noche

It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Incluso la persona más tranquila y coherente puede pasar por un gran momento de ruptura. Un periodo para la locura, por así decirlo. Seguramente todos necesitamos esos puntos de inflexión.

You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.

They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that,' he said. Then, a moment later, he added: 'Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else.

Todo el mundo crece, lo quiera o no. Todos nos hacemos mayores, y así nos enfrentamos a nuestros problemas. Lidiamos con ellos hasta que morimos. Siempre ha sido así y siempre lo será. No eres la única que tiene problemas.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on living alone down there in the darkness.

There has to be pain. That's the rule

It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on - your strengths.

There are always far more people in the world who make things worse, rather than help out.

Even from whatever miserable experience you might have, there is something to be learned.

Compared to them I'm pretty used to losing. There are plenty of things in this world that are way beyond me, plenty of opponents I can never beat. Not to brag, but these girls probably don't know as much as I do about pain. And, quite naturally, there might not be a need for them to know it. These random thoughts come to me as I watch their proud ponytails swinging back and forth, their aggressive strides. Keeping to my own leisurely pace, I continue my run down along the Charles.

Even the darkest, thickest cloud shines silver when viewed from above.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings....

Whether it's right or wrong, I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things--unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. That's got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own. I know....