Quotes About Adversity

This smile isn't a lack of pain. It's a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

The Year of the Rat

Not every skin-teeth is a smile 'Massa' if you see me smiling when you pass if you see me bending when you ask Know that I smile know that I bend only the better to rise and strike again

Don't focus on what happened, focus on what you will do next.

realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside. What I was starting to see was not pretty.

Quando o cristão bota a corda no pescoço, o diabo se pendura nos ombros dele.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Failure too is a form of death.

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

The man walked from his shoulders, anticipating life's next blow, the way ageing boxers did.

There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.

There are times in our lives, Rob, when all of us have to face up to what we fear the most

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

Tis life you should fear--life, with its dangers, its toils, its heartbreakings.

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

Just a pot noodle. Oh - and I found a tin of dog food on the tool shelf.' Misery hissed through Lister's gritted teeth. 'Well,' he said finally. 'Pretty obvious what gets eaten last. I can't stand pot noodles.

Ma perché questo, Efix, dimmi, tu che hai girato il mondo: è da per tutto così? Perché la sorte ci stronca così, come canne? – Sì, – egli disse allora, – siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.

Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind blows off the mountains.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Mother Nature is a bitch.

To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot.

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)