Quotes About Adversity

Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Know, if not admit to it, that at the end of some days a single mother's most important tool is her corkscrew. THE WORDS When my marriage fell apart, the situation entailed a whole new lexicon, in some cases a new spin on old words.

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Arti i burrave është: të prishin punë ose të vrasin mendjen.

It is in the most undesirable of external circumstances that we discover internal qualities like courage, faith, compassion, inspiration, acceptance, and love.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

They both looked younger than him, as well as taller, better built and undoubtedly more schooled in the noble art of punching fuck out of people. Nonetheless, younger doesn't necessarily mean faster or fitter, and Parlabane was highly schooled in the arguably less noble art of running away.

dagoes. With obscenity

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

Odysseus doesn't overcome the lure of the siren's song through virtue and discipline; he orders his sailors to bind him to the mast.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

A priest found an infant, about ten inches long, Crammed into the poor-box. The money had all Been taken. Nothing was there except myself, I was the baby, as it turned out. The priest, Thinking I might have eaten the money, held me Upside down and shook me, which encouraged me To live, I suppose, and I lived.

Importunate life. It should have something better to do Than to hang about at a chronic street-corner In dirty weather and worse company.

My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..