Quotes About Adversity

Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.

Mantenere l'equilibrio di fronte alla fatalità, sopportare con grazia le condizioni avverse è più di una semplice costanza: è un atto di aggressione, un vero trionfo.

Er een eind aan maken: maar zou dat niet haast een beetje heldhaftig zijn voor een 'paljas'? Het zal er wel op uitdraaien, ben ik bang, dat ik verder ga met leven, met eten en slapen, en me met het een of ander zoet te houden; en misschien zal ik er zo langzamerhand aan wennen en in schikken een 'ongelukkige en belachelijke figuur' te zijn.

Casi todo lo grande que existe, existe como «a pesar de», y adquiere forma pese a la aflicción y a los tormentos, pese a la miseria, al abandono y a la debilidad física, pese al vicio, a la pasión y a mil impedimentos más.

Sorgenkind des Lebens

S?r?cia, cum bine se spune, nu este o ruÈ™ine, dar asta-i doar o vorb?. Fiindc? ea este cât se poate de însp?imânt?toare pentru cei ce au parte de ea, pe jum?tate cusur È™i pe jum?tate reproÈ™ nehot?rât, aÈ™adar în totul foarte dezagreabil?, È™i a te amesteca cu ea ar putea avea urm?ri nepl?cute.

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By calamity.

There is a dark force for destruction within us, which someone has called the "death instinct." It is a terribly powerful thing, this force generated by our own frustrated self-love battling with itself. It is the power of a self-love that has turned into self-hatred and which, in adoring itself, adores the monster by which it is consumed.

But true faith must be able to go on even when everything else is taken away from us.

by which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All

When God tells you of a sickness, it is because He means, at the same time, to provide a remedy. It is the Devil who tells us that we are ill and taunts us for it, reminds us of our helplessness by making us even more helpless.

We were in the condition of most of the world, the condition of men without faith in the presence of war, disease, pain, starvation, suffering, plague, bombardment, death. You just had to take it, like a dumb animal. Try to avoid it, if you could. But you must eventually reach the point where you can't avoid it any more. Take it. Try to stupefy yourself, if you like, so that it won't hurt so much. But you will always have to take some of it. And it will all devour you in

These are the times that try men's souls.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

Just be advised, boys,' she said, 'you'll want to watch your step, 'cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism-- lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it'll be them who slip and fall and on a good day break their ass, while the ol' pearl herself just goes a-rollin' on.

But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking rockets. You couldn't adjust to the bastards.

Never mind. Just be advised, boys," she said, "you'll want to watch your step, 'cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism—lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it'll be them who slip and fall and on a good day break their ass, while the ol' pearl herself just goes a-rollin on.

Duress is not an issue,— for life is a duress.

Tutto questo mentre stavano imparando l'unica lezione della vita: che nella vita di un individuo accadono più incidenti di quanto un uomo possa ammettere, se non vuole correre il rischio di impazzire.

Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you in the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river - dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. Destiny does all this to you.