Quotes About Adversity

Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

My ego has been trampled on more times than an old cigarette butt in the gutter

La vie se joue souvent en deux manches: dans un premier temps, elle t'endort en te faisant croire que tu gères, et sur la deuxième partie, quand elle te voit détendu et désarmé, elle repasse les plats et te défonce.

Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you're in control; in the second, when it sees you're relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.

Why are certain people determined to fuck up their lives while for others it seems so easy to do things the way they are supposed to be done?

cuántos artículos en los últimos veinte años se han escrito sobre las mujeres que dan miedo a los hombres, sobre las que se han quedado solas, las que han sido castigadas por su ambición o su singularidad? Como si ser viuda, estar sola o abandonada en tiempos de guerra, o ser maltratadafuera una invención reciente. Siempre hemos tenido que arreglárnoslas sin la ayuda de nadie

Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.

I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise.

day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling on the wrong path

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.

Once upon a time, in the days before Social Security or insurance companies, there lived a miller and his daughter, Della, who were fairly well-off and reasonably happy until the day their mill burned down.

Each generation of Americans has to face circumstances not of its own choosing, by which its character is measured and its spirit is tested. —President Jimmy Carter

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.