Quotes About Adversity

humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into.

Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.

Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.

She reminded me of some of the women I'd known in the Middle East, brave fuckers who'd managed to look like a million bucks even as their cities were being pounded to gravel around their pretty shoulders, fearless beneath their hijabs and glamorous even when they were covered in dust and blood.

Since the Devil is come down in great wrath upon us, let not us in our great wrath against one another provide a Lodging for him.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

When the well runs dry, the nomad migrates. But if the barren landscape is within, where can one turn?

Sometimes our little human splashings are not enough. However hard we try, however strong our heroic human wills (and us humans have such a capacity, such a heroic capacity for believing that the impossible might be possible), sometimes our ridiculously puny human arms are too weak. Sometimes the world is just too big for us, the hurricane too wild, the sea so huge, that it wears out even the bravest of hearts, the strongest of wills.

You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?

I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.

I would say, I'll meet you in Valhalla, replied Hiccup through gritted teeth. But I don't think you'll be going there.

You see, it was not only Hiccup who was growing up, it was the entire world around him — and when whole worlds grow up, that can be painful and difficult. Was it all worth the Archipelago in flames? I do not know, you decide.

However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next is was calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.

You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

You do not have to accept he hand that fate has dealt you

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?

Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?

People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier.