Quotes About Adversity

Colson Whitehead

Her new life required a different sort of strength. She was meticulous in her posture, a walking spear, in the manner of those who'd been made to bend and will bend no more.

The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that

Time enough for Cora to take stock of her journey from Randall and make a thick braid of her misfortunes.

Att se bojor på en annan människa och vara glad att de inte är ens egna – sådan var den lycka som stod färgade till buds, de som definierades av hur mycket värre det närsomhelst kunde blir.

Watch and think and plan. Let the world be a mob—Elwood will walk through it. They might curse and spit and strike him, but he'd make it through to the other side. Bloodied and tired, but he'd make it through.

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down.

A??r iÅŸe dayanmak ve bizi daha da yükseltmek için güçlü olmam?z gerekiyor. Domuzlar? ÅŸiÅŸmanlat?yorsak bunu hayatta kalmak için domuzlara ihtiyac?m?z olduÄŸundan yap?yoruz, hoÅŸumuza gittiÄŸinden deÄŸil. Ama sizin fazla ak?llanman?za izin veremeyiz. Bizden h?zl? koÅŸacak kadar zinde olman?za izin veremeyiz.

Ä°nsanlar doÄŸduklar? zaman iyidir ama dünya onlar? kötüleÅŸtirir. Dünya zaten hep kötüdür ve her gün daha da kötü bir yer hâline gelir.

The boy made a fist. He knew what he'd do if the man put his hand on his leg or tried to touch his thing. He'd vowed to sock Freddie Rich in the face many times and then stood paralyzed when the time came, but this day he felt he could actually do it. Drawing strength from the free world.

But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?

She was a survivor but the world took her in bites.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch?

sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

We go solo, my kinfolk and I, taking each day as an IKEA bookcase we build alone, sans instructions. The leftover pieces? We gobble them down, and sometimes it's the only thing we eat all day.

it was time to get out of what Coach called small-stack mentality. I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted down.

The streets were shrinking, and she felt about the places they led to the same way she felt about her hair when she saw it on the bathroom floor after her mother cut it off.

That was a temporary setback," Zippo said. "If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a 'setback.

Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led out by marshals.

They say ol' man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He's the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.