Quotes About Adversity

David he'd become, but against what Goliath did he rage so fierce?

There should be universal rules about this," she told her reflection. "When a woman is body slammed, she can only take so much without breaking under the pressure." Gathering a full head of steam, she frowned and jabbed her finger in the air. "Life should go easy on you then." That would be humane. Civil. "And if bad things have to happen, there should be warning signs so there's time to brace and prepare for them.

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

you've been rooked. You know,you got the dust off. Killed. Murdered. Clipped. It's a rough deal, but you've had some good times, right?

It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.'

Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you're upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

life lingers through hurdles,but it actually trains you to the best.

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

part of the battle, before things had gone from bad to worse. Alem imagined himself in Tosh's position, with death coming

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

I feel like Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave: "You will I eat last." To this Blumenfeld remarked on the telephone with a comforting quick wit: But Odysseus was not eaten, and it was Polyphemus who came to a bad end. […]

For lack of anything better... it is the failure of others that makes for the strength of the fühers. When there's no worthwhile banner, you start to march behind worthless ones.

Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.

pues son las situaciones adversas las que ponen a prueba el significado de la felicidad y la capacidad del individuo para encajarlas en su propia vida.

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the affections, cramps the intellect, destroys aspiration.