Quotes About Adversity

Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.

Remember this: however bad you think things are today, however awful you consider our leaders to be, however stupid you think your fellow Americans are, this country has seen worse times, including - to name a few - the Civil War, 9/11, the Great Depression, and six seasons of Jersey Shore . We muddled through those times. We will muddle through these.

All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum As you can imagine, this unfortunate condition has an adverse impact on Tevye's milkman career, as it seriously hampers his ability to interact with his customers: CUSTOMER: I need two quarts of milk and one pint of cream. TEVYE: Okay, that's two quarts of milk and one pint of boody booboo

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

In the forest, we boys were food.

Any Tenderloin kid was always prepared.

lived through an extraordinary experience, yet I was fortunate enough to learn from it and walk away a better person. I can't change my past, and it does not grant me the right to use it as a crutch, nor am I destined to become a prisoner because of it. For years I have lived by the philosophy: that which does not kill you can only make you stronger. I simply had to learn to pick myself up at an earlier age.

I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By

I knelt down, trying to put the many pieces of the letter back together again. It was impossible. I dumped the pieces of the letter in the trash, wishing my life would end. I truly believed, at that moment, that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an "It.

I gave up on everything in my life, including escaping my misery through my school-work. Upon

no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

David Adams Richards

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Los vientos y las olas siempre favorecen a los navegantes más hábiles. —EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.