Quotes About Adversity

Tienes que tener tantos buenos ratos como malos; si no, todo se vuelve muy complicado y doloroso.

Echaba a correr cuando las cosas se ponían feas porque estaba segura de que todo iba a terminar mal. Lo único que yo podía controlar era ser yo la que se fuera en lugar de ser la que se quedaba atrás.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

You were doing fine, a familiar voice informed my ear, until that man stepped into your path.

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, as long as I possibly could.

Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can! I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...

Read widely of others experiences in thought and action- stretch to others even though it hurts to and strains and would be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance! Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way, the Spartan way- and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity!

The hurt is not intense when one is hardened to the cold.

your fate involves a dark assailant

the cat unsheathes its claws the world turns --from Resovle, written 1956

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

The stream that hustles us Neither nourishes nor heals.

Don't let the wicked city get you down

You wonder if you've got what it takes to keep building up obstacle courses for your self, and to keep leaping through them, sprained ankle or not.

Don't let the wicked city get you down

It was as if we had been forced together by some overwhelming circumstances, like war or plague, and shared a world of our own.

How best beauty's born of hardihood.

It influenced my life that I did not find content immediately and easily - - and now I am I because of that.

Ho talmente riempito la mia riserva di giorni e maschere che adesso posso e devo passare gli anni a pescare, a tirar su mostri dagli occhi di perla, coriacei, squamosi e con barbe marine, sommersi da lungo tempo nel mar dei Sargassi della mia immaginazione.