Quotes About Adversity

De dragul vieÅ£ii, trebuie s? ne cre?m propriul antidot împotriva realit??ii

Life wears us, uses us -- but we wear it and use it in return, and it is blind, whereas we, after a fashion, see.

Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

She drank deep at the well of self-pity, but found its waters brackish.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented itself. Nothing that happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed but my illusions(...)

For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.

Åžeytan'? iyi tan?yorsam, Ä°çgüdülerine güvenme, sezgilerinden uzak dur, der o. Bizim insan kalmam?z? ister - hem de insandan fazla insan. DüÅŸüÅŸe geçmiÅŸsen bunu sürdürmen için itici gücünü kullan?r. Uçurumdan aÅŸa?? itmez seni - yaln?zca kenar?na dek getirir. Ve orada art?k onun elindesindir, ne yapaca?? insaf?na kalm?? demektir.

Nothing that had happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed except my illusions. I myself was intact. The world was intact.

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.

decidí dejarme llevar por la corriente, no oponer la menor resistencia al destino, como quiera que se presentase. Nada de lo que me había ocurrido hasta entonces había bastado para destruirme, nada había quedado destruido, salvo mis falsas ilusiones (...)

Success is a bitter fruit: sooner or later, what you have created turns against you, becomes your torment.

Cuanto mayor es la calidad de un hombre, peor le va.

Apvylusius draugus visados pakei?ia nauji, kurie pasirodo sunkiausiomis akimirkomis ir iš pa?ios netik??iausios aplinkos.

Claude was just a good French girl of average breed and intelligence whom life had tricked somehow; something in her there was which was not tough enough to withstand the shock of daily experience. For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe: and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated84 by every mouth.

We are all, whether we admit it or not, waiting for the end of the world, as though it were not a world of our own making but a hell into which we had been thrust by a malevolent fate.

Nothing that had happen to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed except my illusions. I myself was intact. The world was intact.

At any rate, I had not yet come to the end of my rope. I was only flirting with disaster.

Everything that happened to him was of a bad nature. It couldn't be otherwise. He lived in the expectation that things would grow worse, and of course they always did.