Quotes About Adversity

It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

When he thought to complain about the burden of it's weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live

You drown not for falling into a river, but by staying submerge in it.

Setiap pencarian dimulai dengan keberuntungan bagi sang pemula. Dan setiap pencarian diakhiri dengan ujian berat bagi si pemenang.

You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.

Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality

Je ne veux plus avoir affaire à mes propres ténèbres, me suis-je promis à moi même, fermant définitivement la porte au nez de l'Autre. Une chute de troisième étage fait tout autant de dégâts qu'une chute du centième étage.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows.

Noone of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage—and indeed perhaps more.

Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

En fin, en este país se hace cada día más difícil sobrevivir al modelito. La globa la lleva, los pobres arrastran la bolsa del pan sin pan.

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

learning how to fail will help us more than anything else in life

What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we're stuck.