Quotes About Adversity

Todo trauma nos conmociona y nos desvía, encaminándonos a una tragedia. Sin embargo, la representación del acontecimiento nos da la posibilidad de convertir ese trauma en el eje de nuestra historia, en una especie de negro lucero del alba que nos indica la dirección.

Resilience means renaître de sa souffrance (reborn from one's own pain), it corresponds to the ability to rebound from adversities, overcome them, and come out stronger, even transformed.

Il nous suffit d'être, pour être supérieurs.

You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.

Life is not as easy as croosing a field

How can you be yourself when you are being blown in a million different directions you can't control?

Não gosto dos justos, dos que nunca caíram, que não recuaram. A virtude deles é morta, sem valor. A beleza da vida não foi revelada para eles.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty.

Life is 10 per cent what happens to you and 90 per cent how you respond to it.

When life flips you the bird, flip it the bird back. Scar tissue is stronger than skin.

history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

Haven't you ever played Uno?" he asks calmly. "Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.

Life is a monster, Calvin. Especially when it doesn't turn out the way you hoped. But that doesn't mean you can hide from it.

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None of us are who we are on our very worst days," he adds. "I know you know that.

None of us are who we are on our very worst days," he adds. "I know you know that." I

There are some prisons with no bars. But that doesn't mean you can't dig your way out.

I know that humour can take on anything.

You have to get out in some rain to find your rainbows

They had one mantra, and it came straight from the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan. If you fall, fall forward

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it.

He then ended his address by quoting Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." It was one of Porter's best speeches

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react.