Quotes About Adversity

James Alexander Thom

Every burden is a blessing.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

For every bad thing in life, mezcal. And... for every good thing, too.

Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.

I never said that. We'll all be hurt, child. We will all be hurt. What I said was: they shall not overpower you.

Dead in Their Tracks by John Annerino

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

No eches de menos un destino más fácil

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos".

La felicidad cabe en tres principios, a cuál más simple: vivir en el presente, valerte solo de ti mismo para ser feliz y permanecer impasible ante la adversidad.

Tengo muchos años... soy una torre en ruinas, habitada por murciélagos y lechuzas. A esta edad, y aun mucho antes, el destino se hace portátil y uno carga con él como con un ingenio ortopédico.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken. Fuck them all. I will not be broken.

Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

it seems like a disaster, but somehow it all comes together at the last minute, and you make it through.