Quotes About Adversity

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

Bob Rubin's book In an Uncertain World. Rubin had argued that many outcomes are possible in a given situation, and you have to anticipate and prepare for eventualities that seem unlikely but that could prove extremely damaging should they materialize

When you confront the monster you

The trouble with doing things that others said were impossible, Daniel thought, is that people keep coming up with other impossible things. Eventually they're likely to be right.

Being afraid was not the sort of thing that endangered life or limb, but it was still an injury of sorts – and sometimes a deeper and more serious kind of injury.

Events are like horses, Hettar told him. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be time to put everything together.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have. You'll get used to it. After you've put it on every morning like an old tunic, you won't even notice it anymore. Sometimes laughing at it helps—a little." "Laughing?" "It shows the fear that you know it's there, but that you're going to go ahead and do what you have to do anyway.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.

Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.

impotency; many developed

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

Try to let what is unfair teach you…what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher…you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.

People who're somehow burned at birth, withered or ablated way past anything like what might be fair, they either curl up in their fire, or else they rise.

The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.

Alls—how it's possible even the worst things that can happen to you can end up being positive factors in who you are.

Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time.

Le persone bruciate alla nascita, quelle colpite e offese oltre ogni giustizia, finiscono per ripiegarsi nel loro stesso fuoco, o per risorgere