Quotes About Adversity

We all drift on the same raft. There is only one question. What sort of shipwrecked man shall I be?

And like the skydiver with the faulty chute, he had the entire rest of his life to figure this out and get good at it.

Sometimes I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel—or, more likely, a demon—assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.

Michael Weiss

Michel de Montaigne

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Profiting little by good examples, I make use of those that are ill, which are everywhere to be found: I endeavor to render myself as agreeable as I see others offensive; as constant as I see others fickle; as affable as I see others rough; as good as I see others evil: but I propose to myself impracticable measures.

KuÅŸand???m?z z?rhlar?n yüreklerimizi kat?laÅŸt?rmas? hiç de gerekli deÄŸil; s?rt?m?z?n kat?laÅŸmas? yeter.

We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.

There's always places where things aren't so bad: cheaper accommodation, cheaper food, cheaper fuel. You go there and it's OK for a while. Then it stops being OK and you get the hell out.

we can't keep it going if too much of what we need is taken away from us.

There are times of our lives when we feel indestructible even though quite a lot of things are going wrong

We never ask for the bad that happens to us, but it happens. The true test of character is how we go on, what we take from it.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.

Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.

I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent--childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.

The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here! It does little harm.

A true hero is the one who knows that often as not the dragon is in the damsel and not the other way around.

Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it's going to push you to grow.

I said, "If I fall, I am strong enough, I'm intelligent enough, I can do it!" I stood up and kept going. I fell and I kept going and going, and each time it became easier and easier. Yet, in the beginning it was so hard, so difficult.

needs must when the devil drives

The right idea at the right time is like a dandelion...You may hack it down, but you only spread the seeds abroad.