Quotes About Adversity

It was as if part of his life was so bleak and dark that he felt the need to live the rest of it to its fullest, squeezing every bit of fun and happiness out of it.

I apologize, Kinswoman Adler." Ramona drew back. "This morning taught me many things I didn't know. I learned that my wife is cheating on me. I learned that she stole our research. I learned that foreign troops have targeted my family, and that my lifelong enemy is the only person capable of helping me. It requires an adjustment.

We do not let our enemies win. We claw their hearts out and devour them. You have work to do.

Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.

Chyort poberi, you

Where was this taken?" Jardin recovered enough to speak. "Near Lawrenceville.

Failure is the best teacher, and fear is the best motivator.

If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.

It's like sometimes fucked up shit happens but it makes you who you are. You can't change it.

You will walk out of here when I'm finished and no doubt run straight into another foolish fight. That was a given.

didn't matter how powerful you were. Life always found ways to stab you and twist the knife in the wound. Nobody was immune.

Ilona Andrews

Dylan Thomas's

Bug turned to me. "I have been chasing that shit monkey all over the fucking city. He destroyed three of my drones. He mocked me.

Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.

Things just didn't go your way today," Owen rumbled from his blanket, his eyes still closed. "First, you got your arm broken. Then the Consort had to bring you food. Now you are getting a lecture. It's hard to be Troy today." "Don't make me come over there," Troy growled. Owen opened his eyes. "And do what?

Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content.

Con las piedras que con duro intento los críticos te lanzan, bien puedes erigirte un monumento.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

emphatically, that I was. After that I decided not to feel sorry for myself or

In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather

Ma perché a noi tocca sempre soffrire? Alla gente come noi, alla gente comune, ai piccoli borghesi? Quando arriva una guerra, o il franco è in ribasso, o ci sono disoccupazione, crisi e rivoluzioni, gli altri se la cavano sempre. E siamo noi a pagare! Perché? Che cosa abbiamo fatto? Paghiamo per gli errori di tutti. Certo, di noi nessuno ha paura!