Quotes About Adversity

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It's why they can't beat us. I don't know why they want to kill us, destroy everything that's good. I can feel what they feel, but I can't understand it. I know they can hurt us, take from us, but they can't beat us because we can love a good dog enough to let him go even when it hurts. They can burn the land, but we'll plant it. They can burn it again, but we'll plant it again. They can't stop us. They can't win.

Every day. Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.

Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don't live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon it. In that house where daily life is lived, things are not always as they should be.

We now know that in life no obstacle can block, it can only impede; that tiredness is an incident not a finality.

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt) Berlin, 1945

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Every time period that's ever transpired has seemed unprecedented to the people who happened to live through it; no one has ever believed the Chinese aphorism 'May you live in interesting times' did not apply to the life they were coincidentally living.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.