Quotes About Adversity

It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.

The times make the man

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

retold as a heroic and masterly reversal of a lost situation.

En cualquier caso, en la Historia no hay finales felices, solo momentos críticos que se superan.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.

I had already discovered that there was no limit to how much suffering I can bear.

Women had ruined him, but they had also showed him compassion.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

La realidad es que cada uno es responsable de su propia vida. Nacemos con ciertas cartas del naipe, y con ellas jugamos nuestro juego; a algunos les tocan malas cartas y lo pierden todo, pero otros juegan magistralmente con esas mismas cartas y triunfan.

She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery.

Enfrenta los obstáculos a medida que se presenten, no pierdas energía temiendo lo que pueda haber en el futuro

El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo.»

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

Se repetía la metáfora del abedul, que se dobla ante la tempestad, pero no se quiebra.

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

En medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible.

Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

Since we're going to suffer, let's clench our teeth," she said. Pain like that, pain of the soul, does not go away with remedies, therapy, or vacations; you simply endure it deep down, fully, as you should. I would have done well to follow my Nini's example, instead of denying that I was suffering and stifling the howl that was stuck in my chest.