Quotes About Adversity

Karou had things to do. Sometimes they took a few hours; other times, she was gone for days and returned weary and disheveled, maybe pale, maybe sunburned, or with a limp, or possibly a bite mark, and once with an unshakable fever that had turned out to be malaria.

Live bitter, so the crows will have no taste for you when you're dead.

Everyone else had managed to pick up the tatters and mend them into wearable lives. Why couldn't he?

The Misbegotten had, in the last year, been pared to a sliver of itself. They had lost so many brothers and sisters that those who remained could have drowned in the ashes of those who had died.

and life, even at its most wretched, does get it's hooks in you.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh.

In spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.

It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won—some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it—but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness

Nu te lupta cu monstrii , ca sa nu devii tu insusi monstru, caci daca privesti in prapastie, si prapastia priveste in tine , de asemenea.

She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened—apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won—some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it—but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness. With

In one vital way, though, she was different. She would never again allow weakness or softness, fear or ineptitude to hold her frozen. She hadn't known yet what she was capable of.

If Eliza had been a whiner, or a prima donna, or some kind of loud chewer or something, this journey could have been a nightmare.

With the fading of the stars and the break of day, Eliza's storm had passed. Today she was the ravaged landscape it had left behind.

Maybe heart-crushing love was the same, and could only grow in hostile environments.

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.

E é assim que você segue em frente. Você dá risada das partes sombrias. Quanto mais partes sombrias, mais você tem de rir. Com rebeldia, com despreocupação, com histeria, da forma como puder.

Any luck?" Lazlo asked her when he saw her coming back from a test at the anchor. "Luck has nothing to do with it," she replied. "It's all strength and cleverness." She winked, flexing her hands like five-legged spiders. "And glue.

Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.' Well, here I come.

Uno obedecía, así de simple, y si en lo más enconado del combate no obedecía, moría. A veces moría de todos modos.

Akhir-akhir ini Hadi Mintarso tampak kuyu dan lesu seperti ban kempes, apalagi semenjak kalah nyaleg. Badannya pun semakin ciut, seolah politik semacam pil diet ajaib yang baru terbukti ampuh jika kita kalah sebelum berlaga.

Kami tak suka mengeluh. Bukan karena mengeluh itu sebuah kelemahan, tapi karena kami telah mendidik diri kami untuk tak membiarkan hidup memengaruhi kami, atau kemampuan kami untuk berfungsi di dalamnya.

But she was such a fighter. She refused to mope and lose her dignity. And she did this by returning to what she knew best. By getting better at it.

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all -- 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.