Quotes About Adversity

The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul.

Kapanpun seseorang berfikir segalanya bisa jauh lebih buruk, tampaknya Sang Pencipta melihatnya sebagai sebuah tantangan pribadi.

Her friends call her warrior. Her enemies berserker.

So what I'm getting at is this. Okay, maybe it's cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive. When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I'm going to be moving fast. I'm gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.

The pack of all disasters has moulded together and fallen on my neck." FRANCISCO PELSAERT

nobody goes through life undefeated

Sometimes what mattered most in sports was overcoming something. It brought out the best in you.

Zreszt? trudno mie? mi to za z?e, przecie? nie co dzie? cz?owiek spotyka si? z si?? nieczyst?! -Tego jeszcze brakowa?o – przytakn?? Azazello. - Gdyby si? spotyka? co dzie?, to by by?o za dobrze!

Qu'importe ? Là où ça n'ira pas mieux, ça ira plus mal, et du mal au bien, il n'y a encore pas loin...

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.

she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself

She had always taken it as a given that emigrating was a misfortune. But, now she wonders, wasn't it instead an illusion of misfortune, an illusion suggested by the way people perceive an émigré? Wasn't she interpreting her own life according to the operating instructions other people had handed her? And she thought that even though it had been imposed from the outside and against her will, her emigration was perhaps, without her knowing it, the best outcome for her life.

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years.

When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

The only things that held them together were their defeat

A bird foraging for food in the swamps and marshes sinks rapidly if it doesn't move. It has to keep pulling its feet out of the mire to move on, regardless of whether it has caught something or not. And the same applies to us and to our love. We have to move on, we can't stay where we are, because we'll sink.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. Milton Erickson

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.

I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.

Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.