Quotes About Adversity

It's all right. It's like stumbling on a rock on the roadside. It's petty...a small thing. The place you want to go...is more distant farther off. So...it's all right. You'll stand up. And you'll start walking. Soon...

Beneath an unsinking black sun...through the boundless gloom...our journey continues.

You're going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again… soon.' – Guts

I think I'll try crying and shouting and biting my way through. Maybe I can change something.

It was like being a sheep wandering into a pack of wolves./ A unilateral... fear of the unknown.

You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon.

i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

If life were easy, it wouldn't be difficult.

Every single person out there has a crazy story. Every single person has some bizarre, life-shattering, pull-the-rug-out-from-under-you story in their past, or will experience one in their future.

most of life, you can be weak inside and get through by putting on a tough outer shell. But if you work in hospice, you have to stay soft on the outside. So in order to stand up straight, you have to have a spine of steel. Two ways to go through the world, two ways to deal with the loss that is an inevitable experience in life—with a hard shell or with a rock-solid backbone.

Whatever bad things have happened to you in your life, whatever hard things you've gone through, you have to do three things: You have to accept it. You have to be kind to it...And listen to me. You have to let it be kind to you.

I gave chase, and he took a shot at me, so I did the only thing I could in the circumstances…. I stabbed him in the shoulder.

The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse.

Life refused to be controlled.

Sometimes you have to turn people's own weapons against them.

Decidme, pues, ¿cómo debería apreciar los encantos que un cielo para mí en un infierno transformaron?

But if the dragon wants to rise in the air, it must fly against the wind.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

I've done tonnes of things that have not been successful -- movie after movie after movie that just went right in the toilet. You have to get yourself ready for those dips.

We can't always follow our hearts, no matter how good our intentions are. Sometimes, whether we like it or not, we just have to do whatever's necessary to keep ourselves going.

El miedo nos mantiene vivos.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." MICHAEL CAINE

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.