Quotes About Adversity

Nije dovoljno jednoj stvari le?a okrenuti pa da prestane da nas goni i mu?i.

He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.

Svi su oni u suštini jedno i podjednako vredni naše pažnje, jer pokazuju mesto na kome je ?ovek naišao na zapreku i nije zastao pred njom, nego je savladao i premostio kako je mogao, prema svom shvatanju, ukusu i prilikama kojima je bio okružen.

naši su doživljaji ?esto tako zamršeni i teški da nije ?udo što ih ljudi pravdaju u?eš?em samog Satane, nastoje?i tako da ih objasne ili bar u?ine lakše podnošljivim.

He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into that life which he had left as a child in the slums of San Giusto in Trieste, right back into the world of ugly squalor and besetting vice from which he had run with all his strength for thirty years and which, for a long time now, he had believed was behind him.

ništa ljude ne vezuje tako kao zajedni?ki i sre?no preživljena nesre?a.

Kada je na kazan i?i, brzi ste i okretni svi, a kad je u službi potr?ati, vežu vam se noge i stane vam pamet. A meni obraz zbog vas gori.

?udnovato je, ali istinito, da te velike nesre?e, kao mine sa duga?kim fitiljem, eksplodiraju tek mnogo docnije, ?esto kad ih ve? niko više ne o?ekuje.

When we are told to look on the bright side of things, it is generally not at a happy time.

I now realize that lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place.

When your life is going downhill, it doesn't get better just because you want it to. Nor can you will it to be better. Your life will only get better when you get better.

It doesn't matter what road you take, hill you climb, or path you're on, you will always end up in the same place, learning. — Ralph Stevenson

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little. — Jeff Bridges' character in Seabiscuit

Dammit All To Hell and Back Again!

Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break.

As surely as spring followed winter, new life followed death, fighting for its place on the earth. Let man do his worst, yet still the tentative shoots of faith and hope sprouted the ruins of shattered lives and broken dreams. Resurrection was real, after all.

If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory.

We're more RESILIENT. Takes a LOT to destroy a human spirit.

Whatever our history, whatever the root of our surnames, we remain a good and decent people, and we do not bow down and we do not give up. The fire of the human spirit cannot be quenched by bomb blasts or body counts. Cannot be intimidated forever into silence or drowned by tears. We have endured worse before. We will bear this burden and all that come hereafter because that's what ordinary men and women do. No matter what. This has not made us weaker. It has only made us stronger.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight the battles he wishes to fight; he fights the battles that find him. I would do my best to ignore my foul mood and physical discomfort, and plunge ahead as I had planned.