Quotes About Adversity

We exist to be killed," Kaladin said. He blinked, glancing at the other few members of Bridge Four sitting apathetically in the rain. "If we're not dead already.

When you've got an arrow stuck in you, it's sometimes best to just yank it out in one pull.

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.

el verdadero fracaso es elegir fracasar.

My other hand?" Lopen said. "The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would wish to know, so that you can prepare to be insulted.

Kaladin no había sabido, al criarse en el remoto Piedralar, lo afortunado que era su pueblo al haber evitado la batalla. El mundo entero guerreaba

This is my story. Or, well, part four of it. Otherwise known as "The part where everything goes wrong, and then Alcatraz has a cheese sandwich.

It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.

All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it .

Just because you've had misfortune in your past doesn't mean you have to give up on your future.

Dance with the Devil

But if life has any definition at all, it is the things that happen to us while we are making plans.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Hope is a function of struggle.

When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, "Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I'm going in again"—my gut reaction is, "What a badass.

If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

the only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you're going to dare greatly, you're going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That's why we call it courage. That's why it's so rare.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.