Quotes About Adversity

Cinda Williams Chima

Success has made failures of many men.

Sekalipun dililit oleh rumput-rumput kemelaratan, bunga-bunga kasih sayang tetap mengelilingiku. Aku akhirnya menyadari bahwa kasih sayang menghapus segala yang buruk. Hasrat untuk mencintai telah menjadi salah satu kekuatan pendorong dalam hidupku.

Aku bagai seekor burung elang yang dipotong sayapnya. Setiap kali Inggit memandangiku, setiap kali pula darah menetes dari urat darahnya. Memang terasa lebih berat melihat orang yang kau cintai menghadapi penderitaan daripada bila kau mengalami sendiri penderitaan itu.

Dalam hal terentu kecintaan rakyat ini menimbulkan kesulitan, sama halnya dengan kebencian dari musuh.

Sukarno adalah seorang satria. Pejuang seperti satria boleh saja tersungkur, tapi dia akan bangkit kembali. Waktunya tidak lama lagi.

Adalah sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk menguatkan diri menghadapi hal yang paling buruk.

Ada masa-masa dimana kesulitanmu berguna dan diperlukan.

Ini adalah bagian perjuangan yang kami lakukan, perjuangan tanpa harapan.

Sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk meludahi lawan yang lemah,. Tetapi bila kita menghadapi lawan yang kuat, setidak-tidaknya kita merasa bahwa dia merupakan lawan kita yang pantas.

Setiap kemajuan menimbulkan lebih banyak sakit kepala.

Bahkan seekor cacing pun kalau terluka, akan menggeliat-geliat dan melawan.

Bastards have pissed me off," Reed snarled, out of breath, as he backed into the open armory door. "They hit me in the face." Lang grabbed Reed's jaw, turned his face toward him. "It's just a scratch." It's just my fucking face ," Reed sputtered. "It needs to look good on a book jacket when I write my memoirs someday.

And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen. ~Dallas and Amy~

through life without

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

There is a word that shrinks love using. It is 'resilient'. The idea seems to be that some people, better people, have thick outer shells and don't let things bother them. Don't let the voices in.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

principle of treatment can be summarized as: Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass