Quotes About Adversity

I may have lost everything I ever owned and loved, but in return I was given the world.

When I had got dressed that morning I had felt beautiful and ready to take on the world. Now I felt like the little girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that blew up like a blueberry and rolled off. The more they all stared at me, the more my confidence crumbled.

U trenutcima kad život dotakne dno, možeš u?initi samo dvije stvari: 1) slomiti se, izgubiti nadu i odbiti po?i dalje te ostati ležati potrbuške na tlu mlate?i šakama i nogama ili 2) smijati se. - Mjesto zvano Ovdje

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.

And just because he's dead doesn't mean I have to stop living too.

You need to keep your strength up, or those fuckers will get you down.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

Heroes never panic. They're always the people who can have a nuclear bomb dropped on their city or crash in an airplane and manage to organize a group, help the survivors, outsmart the enemy, or at least just not break down in tears.

the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much.

A man does not always remain at the same stage. He is always ascending or descending. When he reaches the top, he must concern himself with the probability that he will fall. When he reaches the bottom, he must strive once again to climb to the top. That is the nature of man. When the soul of a man is in its darkest night, he must strive constantly for new light. When one thinks there is only an end, that is when one must struggle for the new beginning.

There is an old Russian saying: When fingernails are being pulled out in Moscow, fingers are being chopped off in the provinces. That saying one can take at full value.

And as terrified as she might have been as she lay in that room, perhaps regretting herself to the core, she had already resolved not to show any fear, no matter what was in store for her. So when

For let's be honest, who is entirely well, lacking one? I mean throughout your life, so that you can proceed steadily, confidently, and without certain inevitable collapses?

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Better to be screwed physically than financially.

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.