Quotes About Adversity

When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

Isn't that about an orphan?" I asked. I hated those kinds of books. "You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphaned story. Life is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later." "In my case, sooner." "Yes, in your case, sooner. But you are strong, and God never gives us more than we can bear.

You are a gaming person, which is to say you are the kind of person who believes that "game over" is a construction. The game is only over if you stop playing. There is always one more life. Even the most brutal death isn't final.

But my partner died, and now I detest my work, and I have been blue. More than blue really. I have been in the depths of despair. My grandfather, Fred, who I adored, recently died. It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing. And I suppose I came to Friendship because I no longer wished to be in the place I lived and sometimes I no longer wished to even be in my body.

Samson, you are a lucky boy,' Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. 'You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.

Nächstes Mal scheitern wir besser.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing.

It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing.

But even a declawed tiger still has teeth..." -Anya

Limitations are style if you make them so.

For Ms. Pac-Man, Anna thought, life was cheap and filled with second chances.

It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses

If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.

How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Beim nächsten Mal scheitern wir besser.

Something I've learned is that when you don't have many resources, you have to be even more rigorous with your style. Limitations are style if you make them so.

When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

Twenty years ago, when she first started doing Survivor Day, it was easy, she says, but now, who's left? Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.

Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.