Quotes About Adversity

Perhaps this was rock bottom. But then, she had thought that before, and there was always a little farther to fall.

Sometimes when Fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.

...and we take everything heartily and naturally in the right way, — for even mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete — but try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that flowers can still grow through.

His fortune is shipwrecked...

Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.

Soul connections are often formed through the currents of adversity.

Life is rough. If it were smooth, we'd slide right through it without noticing. A bumpy ride teaches us gratitude and perspective.

To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food and fresh water, I knew it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn't bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.

No existe pasión o pensamiento maléfico, adversidad o catástrofe, rebelión o crimen, que no proyecte su sombra en los sueños antes de materializarse en el mundo.

Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.

What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called "snirt.

But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

?ovjek mašta od djetinjstva o velikim gradovima i slavnim poprištima, ali stvarne i odlu?ne bitke za održavanje svoje li?nosti i ostvarenje svega što ona u sebi nagonski krije, mora da bije tamo gdje ga sudbina baci, bogzna na kakvom uskom, bezimenom prostoru, bez sjaja i ljepote, bez svjedoka i sudije.

Velika, prava ljubav pokaza?e svoju punu snagu samo onda ako uspije da od dvoje ljubavnika, slabih ljudi, na?ini stvorenja koja se ne boje ni promjena, ni nesre?a, ni rastanaka, ni bolesti, ni života ni smrti.

Šta vredi imati mnogo i biti nešto, kad ?ovek ne može da se oslobodi straha od sirotinje, ni niskosti u mislima, ni grubosti u re?ima, ni nesigurnosti u postupcima, kad gorka i neumitna a nevidljiva beda prati ?oveka u stopu, a taj lepši, bolji i mirniji život izmi?e se kao varljivo privi?enje.

Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds.

Treba izdržati do kraja sa osmehom stjuardese koja zna da na avionu nešto nije u redu.

Ono od ?ega bih hteo da pobegnem ide sa mnom, pre mene stiže u mesto koje je cilj mog puta, i do?ekuje me na stanici, vodi u hotel i prati po gradu.

Kod unutarnjih borba koje ?ovek vodi sa samim sobom i sa nepoznatim silama u sebi, važi više nego igde pravilo: ne predaj se nikad! - Ni predaje, ni ustupanja! A pre svega, što kažu u Bosni: ne veži tugu za srce!

Od svega što ima i jeste,ja sam hteo da napravim sredstvo kojim bih savladao i osvojio svet, a sada je taj svet od mene na?inio svoje sredstvo.

Samo plivati! Isplivati iz hladne vode i okrenuti le?a svemu, i maštanjima o onom što je bilo, i ?ega nema, i što bi trebalo biti, i ovoj obali i ovom životu. Plivati i isplivati.

Nothing brings men closer than a common misfortune happily overcome.