Quotes About Adversity

This is a road I must travel bleeding.

Isabel Allende

In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Did you just think of that?" "No. It's by Albert Camus.

He vivido en un mar tormentoso, con olas que me elevan y luego me precipitan al vacío. Tan fuerte ha sido ese oleaje que antes, cuando todo iba bien, en vez de relajarme en la paz del momento, me preparaba para la caída violenta, que creía inevitable. Ya no es así. Ahora navego a la deriva, día a día, contenta con el solo hecho de flotar mientras se pueda.

Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia.

Ningún mal resiste el remedio del trabajo y el consuelo de la comida.

I find it hard to stay positive in this rubbish world.

I need to remember to overcome.

Para ser feliz, hace falta coraje.

You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more

Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.

I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Poverty has a great appetite for eating one's dignity, but Elimane was one of those people who fought to keep his, even when that was the only battle he was winning.

He didn't like remembering such things, but by now he was used to the way life was punctuated by such moments, which sent hooks into parts of the past one might prefer to forget.

I was pleasantly surprised with 'Salvage.' I went to Australia and New Zealand for the novel and met a lot of people who had experienced the earthquakes in Christchurch. They responded very strongly to the book because they had been through these natural disasters and were trying to figure out how to rebuild.

Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

Instead of being with my family, I was spending a lot of time trying to start all over again, from zero, in another country. I couldn't take it anymore, so I went back to Mexico and said, 'I'm gonna do my own stuff.' So, I did my movie that I was trying to do for many, many years, called 'Instructions Not Included.'

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.

I'm from East Palo Alto, California. I grew up with zero dollars.

I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.