Quotes About Adversity

Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.

Nothing ever happens quickly. Nothing is ever, ever easy. Most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan.

When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float. Surrender....

Life may be filled with problems, difficulties and challenges but you have the power of courage with it you can tackle anything in life. Believe in yourself and face life with a smile.

Every problem in life has a gift inside. So don't get upset when you face problem. It may have more beautiful ending than your expectation.

When life throws curve balls at you, do not try to dodge them. They are meant to hit you, to mould you and to shape you to become the person you are meant to be. Enjoy the impact, smile and move on.

Life is ultimately filled with events that may cause us great difficulty and great pain. There are going to be people in our lives that we thought would always be there for us that disappear.

We all have problems or things that will get us down from time to time. No matter who we are. But a good sense of humour can get you through most things. Laugh it off. it'll be alright in the end.

Eventually all of the pieces fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment, and know that everything happens for a reason.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Mistakes are painful when they happen. But years later a collection of mistakes are called experience which leads us to success.

If my childhood had given me anything, it was endurance.

Madeline Miller

Every day makes me old," she said. "I do not have your years to waste. As for that safety, I do not want it. It is only more chains. Let them come at me if they dare.

My hands were cut almost to blood by jagged shards of rock. My feet left stains where they stepped. The pain was welcome, ordinary and clean. So easy to bear it was laughable.

Contemplé su noble rostro; noble no por su belleza, sino porque, como el buen metal, había sido templado y golpeado hasta volverse fuerte.

Even a best iron grows brittle with too much beating

There was a long silence, and I almost thought he had not heard me. At last, he said: "Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

Madeline Miller

His eyes opened. "Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.

It was not murder that exiled me, it was my lack of cunning.

His eyes opened. 'Name one hero who was happy

Wrong," he said. "A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.

So he agreed: I would be exiled, and fostered in another man's kingdom. In exchange for my weight in gold, they would rear me to manhood