Quotes About Adversity

Les choses ne nous arrivent pas, c'est nous qui arrivons aux choses

It wasn't easy, living in the past. You couldn't whack someone for what they were going to do, or what the world was going to find out later. You couldn't warn people, either. You didn't know what could change the future, but if he understood things right, history tended to spring back into shape.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean Because I don't let it - Jane

Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.

Maura dertli bir kahkaha att?. Bir ili?kinin dayand?r?labilece?i en sa?lam ?ey trajedi.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness—it's acting in the face of fear.

I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes. I jump into things with both feet, and sometimes it gets me into hot water. But in the end, everything has a way of working out.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

Survival is only the first step.

Tehlike yaln?zca soyut bir kavramken korkusuz olmak kolayd?r.

Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

why anticipate bad things? We all experience these things, both the rich and the poor." Elena

What did you think? That we were going to a tea party? These men are trained to live through days in the jungle without food, without hope. They fight for a better Philippinas than the one we have at this moment. We've been reduced to animals, and so we act as such. Do you have a better answer on how to win this war?

Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud." —THICH NHAT HANH

Resilient trees can weather a violent storm because their roots are deep and firm.

Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.

Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud.

Using your intelligence and your compassion, you'll be able to find your way out of any difficulty that arises in daily life. This gives you greater confidence in your own capability, making you even more solid.

You have single men, moving from parish to parish, with no family of their own. It was a formula for disaster." Like

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