Quotes About Adversity

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

If Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Molotov Cocktail

If you can't run, then walk. And if you can't walk, then crawl. Do what you have to do. Just keep moving forward and never, ever give up.

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough.

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

It's only life. We all get through it.

After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.

When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.

Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.

hole. The temperature climbed.

Be daunted, but not defeated.

Cuando has sufrido mucho en la vida, cada dolor adicional es tan tolerable como insignificante.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. And that is what he is doing: becoming someone.

Când ai suferit foarte mult în via??, fiecare durere în plus poate fi atât neînsemnat?, cât ÅŸi de nesuportat

On peut tout te prendre; tes biens, tes plus belles années, l'ensemble de tes joies, et l'ensemble de tes mérites, jusqu'à ta dernière chemise. Il te restera toujours tes rêves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué...