Quotes About Adversity

S'cool. I've lived most of my life under threat of "one of these days" for one reason or another. Superheroes do.

muszáj továbbmenni. Az igazi személyiség fokmérÅ'je az, ahogyan továbbmegy az ember.

Accept that you're outgunned? Stay on the floor and don't even try to fight? What kind of life is that?

I can either give in to fear and give up—or refuse to let it touch me and go on.

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

If only it were that personal. Life fucks you anonymously. It doesn't want to know your name, doesn't give a shit about your station. The terrain never stops shifting. One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are.

One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

Sometimes when all hell's breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose.

When we're kids," Dancer said, "we're made of steel. And we think we're invincible but stuff happens and that steel gets stretched and pulled and twisted into impossible shapes. Most people are torn apart by the time they're married and have kids of their own. But some people, the few, figure out how to let that steel heat and bend. And in all the places other people break, they get stronger.

I'm not afraid of Hell. I lived there once. And if I have to go back again, I'll swagger through those gates with fire in my blood and war in my heart. And I'll. Take. No. Prisoners.

I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.

I don't know what I can and can't do, Cruce, but I will learn, and quickly, and if you make me learn the hard way, I'll turn every bit of it against you. I can be the sheepdog that walks at your side, or I can be the wolf you don't want living in your backyard. The powerful, hungry, savage, and pissed-off wolf, and I promise you, I will delight in destroying your backyard. I have a long memory and few scruples left. It's your call, babe.

One thing I do know is things can always get worse, most often at the precise moment you've decided they can't.

A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

Benim rotam, üstüme yaÄŸan tüm bu yaÄŸmurda peçeteden yap?lm?? bir ÅŸemsiye kadar kullan??l?.

Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are.

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

They may have stolen my past, but I'll never let them take my future

Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. The soles of my shoes should have been steaming.

Champions don't spring from happy childhoods. They explode from tortured ones with a mile-wide dark streak they've learned to use for good.

There are more balls in twenty feet of street here than there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack. We might fight each other, but in times of danger, we'll fight together. Dude!

One thing I've learned is that the harder your life gets, the gentler you have to be with yourself when you finally get some downtime, or you can't be strong when you need to be.

Buck up, little buckaroo, it said, in a dry, gravelly drawl. You wouldn't believe how many things that advice has gotten me through since. When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: Are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?