Quotes About Adversity

What could be crueler? I suppose the answer was: lots of things-an intellectual forced to shovel chicken shit, a Muslim forced to keep pigs, a physicist ordered to assemble radios, an historian in a dunce cap, a person beaten to death for being a teacher.

One obvious answer is that the risks and privations in Mexico are much worse that those endured in a border crossing.

The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.

the predominating characteristic of the Chinese was stoicism

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

That was the last day I lived in my body. I retreated above the neck, and lived inside the fire in my head ever since.

Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

What hurts us is what heals us

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

YOU don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Al atravesar un periodo difícil, recuerda: aunque hayas perdido grandes batallas, sobreviviste y estás ahí.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.