Quotes About Adversity

Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero.

Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Esto no me gusta -susurró ella-, no me gusta nada. -Has caído en las manos del diablo cariño. Cuanto antes lo aceptes, mejor será para ti.

I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.

A coaster gives you hope. You can pretty much ride a good one through the worst tragedy life throws at you. You can even ride it through somebody dying, I guess.

It's not your fault that you're slow. I'm sure it's hard to recover from being hit on the head with a silver spoon.

Creciste protegida, Daisy, pero yo lo hice de la manera más cruda. Mucho más cruda de lo que puedas imaginar. Cuando creces así, tienes que aprender a protegerte de alguna manera, tienes que aferrarte a algo que impida que te conviertas en una bestia. En mi caso fue el orgullo. Nunca me doblego . Jamás

It's a good thing I have an oversize ego because if I didn't, you'd have destroyed it.

As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.

No deberías desafiar a alguien que no tiene nada que perder. Alex

If she'd done things the normal way, she'd have practice dealing with heartbreak, but she'd had none. That was why her world had fallen apart. The

Perder no es tan malo como dejar de luchar

She wasn't going to let them make her cry. She'd cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn't help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.

We all have a lot of rubbish in our pasts. At some point, we need to step over the piles and get on with it.

No deberías desafiar a alguien que no tiene nada que perder.

Sometimes the best part of loving somebody is loving them even though they've hurt you. Listen to me, Joel. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

We can't just leave the places we don't like. That's a child's way of thinking. Sometimes we have to stay because it's right that we do.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Sherman: You are the worst. Rick: You taught me everything I know.

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

You must expect to make enemies." "I never expect to make anything else," he said.

It's funny how life can change so suddenly when you're least expecting it.