Quotes About Adversity

In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulty; they are necessary for health. What concerns us here is only an excessive amount of them.

The brothers were on us like ugly on an ape

Monica had never been blessed with a road map. Her own parents had not provided one, certainly not for a situation like this. She always envied those who seemed to have a map, a plan, a destination, something inside that provided a framework. In times of confusion and despair, she had little to fall back on and no one to call on for advice or support. Certainly not her mother. And who knew where her father was? It

In hard times you don't share your secrets and you sure don't borrow trouble.

It's not worth it trying to push back because they hold all the cards. They've got paid lawyers and regulators with no personal financial stake in this building like we do. They can sit at their desks and tell us what we can and can't do, and they can drag this out for years or until we're both bankrupt.

Marriages fall apart every day," she told her reflection. "Other women live through it. So will you." But how? Claire moved closer to the mirror and stared into her eyes, eyes that Kirk claimed were the color of the irises that bloomed every spring under their front window. Who was this woman staring back at her? A wife. A mother. Who else? What did other people see? What did they think?

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.

Nauczy?am si?, ?e albo akceptujemy to, co daje nam ?ycie, albo ga?niemy.

Takie jest ?ycie, ma petite. Czasem musimy zada? cios pierwsi, zanim inni nam go zadadz?

Judge Smails: It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts aren't too tight in the seat.

Nélida Piñon costuma dizer que, de alguma forma, todos os dias alguém bate à nossa porta e nos convida a desistir. Não desistimos de teima quem sabe até meio burra.

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Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

Bad courses, with incompatible professors and unreasonable requirements, are the key to developing an ulcer.

This practice asks you to embrace this well-validated strategy by making time to write a letter to yourself when faced with demanding or uncertain circumstances.

After a bad or disrupting occurrence in your life, Fredrickson's research shows, what you choose to focus on exerts significant leverage on your attitude going forward. These simple choices can provide a "reset button" to your emotions.

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P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.

Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess.

I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.