Quotes About Adversity

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!

A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction."

Nothing inspires honesty like fear or trouble."

Sometimes the greatest messages come out of the greatest messes."

Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience."

It's pain that changes our lives.

Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face? Do you think youíre supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you? If you notice it, you own it.

Droga to ?ycie. ?ycie to walka

Sometimes, when I couldn't afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

How will you know how strong you are unless your strength is tested?

If living was easy then everyone would be doing it.

One small failure or even large success does not define any of us.

Aidan and Kai were almost the same height, but frequently Kai seemed smaller, even less mature. Aidan couldn't completely explain it. Certainly, Kai had suffered far less in his life. Aidan wondered how Kai would have coped with the horrors he himself had endured, and allowed himself a cold smile at the thought of the bookish Kai chained in a screwship's dark hold, squirming in his own shit.

Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

The dorados have awaited their chance to test me. They have destroyed my ship, disarmed me, and now they mock me. If only I were a sea creature. Fish do not get themselves into problems that they must use intellect and tools to solve. They simply swim, breed, and die. I am awed by the intricate perfection of the world in which I find myself, but I am too tired for true appreciation.

Failure is What It's All About [book title]

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. —Charles Bukowski