Quotes About Adversity

The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.

Maybe nothing could help him now. But he needed to tell him anyway. The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

Just because your road is rocky, doesn't mean you are on the wrong road.

Herger said to me, Be thankful, for you are fortunate. I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.

In the darkened trailer, Kelly was frightened, but she was reassured at the no-nonsense way Sarah talked about weapons. And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn't let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you wanted, was something she found herself imitating.

Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate." I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, then this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.

Si una cosa va mal, tiende a seguir mal. Eso se refleja en el dicho popular que afirma que las desgracias nunca vienen solas. La teoría de la complejidad revela que el dicho popular es acertado. Las desgracias se agrupan. Las cosas siempre van de mal en peor. Ése es el mundo real.

Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.

He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing's wrong.

Women are kind of screwed, in the world," Andrew says.

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure.

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.

The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

The third says that the business is a place where everything we know how to do is tested by what we don't know how to do, and that the conflict between the two is what creates growth, what creates meaning.

Comfort makes cowards of us all. And

He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be tough and inured to hardship... But how was he to come by that quality in this luminous garden, where all manner of fruit was to be had for the picking?

Hay que contar siempre con lo peor, y luego hay que hacer contra ello todo lo que se pueda.

Ungeheuer sind nun einmal notwendig, damit ein Held ein Held sein kann.

In other words,' said Mr Coreander, 'you're a weakling.

No,' said Bastian, still looking down. 'I was put back last year.' 'Good Lord!' cried Mr Coreander. 'A failure all along the line.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.