Quotes About Adversity

Falling to a low estate can do that—you see so much more of the world than you did before. You become very aware of how thin the line is, of how little safety exists.

The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.

sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.

We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.

Los soldados llevan muchas cargas, muchacho, y a veces mantenerse vivo e la más pesada d´ todas

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair.

Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.10

character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Everybody hurts sometimes, and

It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Life can try to break us. We don't have to stay broken. And if we help each other with that, that isn't charity. That's humanity.

He hated this time of year. Every day was shorter than the last. Night began to fall in late afternoon. Winter could arrive on any given day and stay until April. They had had an ice storm on Halloween and a blizzard on Veterans Day, followed by three days of rain that had caused flash flooding in low-lying areas. The odd day of stunning, electric blue skies and a paltry few lingering fall colors couldn't make up for the stretches of bleak gray or the damp cold that knifed to the bone.

The only rule of survival in a situation like this: Shut your mouth and keep moving.

Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

I told Ersken, Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today, he said, as good humored as always. Today we're doing to jump.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.