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Quotes About Adversity

Ever since his first attack
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
Challenges are unique to every individual. What makes a challenge difficult or easy is the level of power inherent within it. Easy challenges do not require a great deal of effort, and therefore their yields are poor. Difficult challenges, on the other hand, require a great deal of effort, and in exercising the will in order to conquer them, they yield magnificent gifts of power.
~ Théun Mares
The warrior lives by challenge; therefore his life is a disciplined strategy.
~ Théun Mares
The only failure in life is the failure to fight.
~ Théun Mares
A warrior lives by challenge. The average man sees everything in his life as either a blessing or a curse; the warrior sees everything as a challenge.
~ Théun Mares
The warrior's shortcomings are his ticket to freedom.
~ Théun Mares
No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.
~ Théun Mares
Everything in life is but a challenge. Challenges can never be good or bad; we make of our challenges what we will.
~ Théun Mares
Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park
~ Thabiso Monkoe
There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem
~ Thabiso Monkoe
Using time, pressure and patience, the universe gradually changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds. You're being worked on too, so hang in there. Just because something isn't apparent right now, doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's not until the end do you realize, sometimes your biggest blessings were disguised by pain and suffering. They were not placed there to break you, but to make you.
~ The Angel Affect
Life goes on, brah!
~ The Beatles
Don't be afraid to fail.
~ The Blonde Jon
Shit getting realer and realer everyday.
~ The Blonde Jon
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.
~ The Hitopadesa
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
~ The Lockhorns
Difficulties in life are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction, When one door closes, another always opens
~ the omani shed
Your Hardship is a test of friends and friendship
~ the omani shed
There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.
~ The Talmud
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
~ The Who
Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
The more dirty, hideous people you meet, the more your thrashing gains. My thrashing is my pride in such days"..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.
~ Theadore Roosevelt
their own and were obliged to live in various
~ Theo Aronson