Quotes About Adversity

one cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

My father has this irritating habit of saying the same thing whenever something bad happens. This, too, shall pass, he says. What annoys me is that he's always right about it. What annoys me even more is that he always reminds me later when it does pass, as a smug I told you so.

I stand behind my decision. You see yourself as failing- but that's not what I see. Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good- but we are all tested in this life, Connor. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Everything in life is a lesson, Kelton. Learn from it. Better yourself. Become stronger.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.

We are all tested in this life. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

When faced with the end of all things, it was much easier to nibble at it than take it in large, indigestible bites.

5) YOU ARE BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WOULD UNWIND YOU. RISE TO THE OCCASION.

I won't allow it to control me. My current agony will not define me.

He feels like Frodo at the gates of Mordor. Who would have guessed that Ohio could hold such dark portent?

That's what you are now. TROUBLE in caps-lock. Then she puts her cane down, and softens a bit. "That's not your fault, though. You didn't ask to be born, and you didn't ask to be unwound, either.

Tú eres bueno en las grandes dificultades, y eres un capullo en la vida normal.

Maybe you're the last thorn in my side I'll ever have to deal with." "Naah – there's always another thorn.

El error es intrínseco a la condición humana, y es algo que adoro de la humanidad.

One crisis at a time!

Any weed dumb enough to grow tall ain't got no chance. It gets decapitated by the next train that comes through.

We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.

Which is worse, I wonder - watching everyone you know fall into that ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them

The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.

Yeah! Someone says they freaked out and ate each other—you know, like the Donner party.

Which is worse, I wonder- watching everyone you know fall into a ravive, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them.

Humankind must be pushed out of the nest if it is ever to grow beyond its current state.

You're like a salmon swimming upstream, Lev offers. "It's inside you to do it. And it's inside me to help you get there." "Salmon." Cy looks thoughtful. "I once saw this poster about a salmon. It was jumping up this waterfall, see? But there was a bear at the top, and the fish, it was jumping right into the bear's mouth. The caption beneath— it was supposed to be funny—said, The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

Why did it all have to go so wrong? the heavy man wailed. She knelt down to him and put a hand on his shoulder. Maybe it needed to go wrong, she said softly, to bring you to this moment.