Quotes About Adversity

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't me you stop telling the story.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

On nema snage da se otme svemu oko sebe i da otpo?ne nešto novo sa sobom i sa životom oko sebe.

In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. I gave up, I whispered. Don't give up, she whispered back.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

Ted, he said, when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live? I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.

But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

One must indeed test the strings in this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

The power of misery is its long shadow. It darkens everything within view.

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Anyone who has sat through that slice of time, when you don't know something awful and then you do, will confirm that it is literally a bend in your life, and what is critical is what you choose next; because you can view a diagnosis many ways—as a curse, a challenge, a resignation, a test from God.

Do not stop your lives," he told them. "Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

Do not stop your lives, he told them. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one. In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children's worlds.