Quotes About Adversity

We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

Whichever way the wind blows, it will rain upon the Kindath.

It was the doing, he learned quickly enough—in the first inn that refused to serve him his requested flask of Senzio green wine—of the pinch-buttocked, joy-killing priests of Eanna. The

If it makes you feel better, dying here, I'm not a farmboy

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

Men changed during wars or conflict, sometimes beyond recognition. Tai

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning

Damn the crabs!' He thumped on the desk with his fist. Of all the rotten luck. They have to choose my loch.

The brawniest will not beat back the storm Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm.

The first night, a rock, big as two fists. The second, a rock big as three. But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed. (Though oaken as man could be.) The third night, a silvery ring of glass. Patience arched to endure, But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood Was staining her gaze so pure.

Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed, Nary a curse cursed he, But moved in his House. With his dark little wife, And his dark little children three.

Consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.

Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business,but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed.In the wild weedshe is a citizen.

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray.

Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.

To say yes is to die A lot or a little.

Live and go out. Define and medicate the whirlwind.

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

Corazón Valiente

tirar para arriba, which literally means "to toss upward," but which is most often translated as "to overcome adversity.

overcoming obstacles [tirando para arriba