Quotes About Adversity

Hur fick ni modet att våga lämna indien? - Frågan är felformulerad. Det är rädsla som får folk att fly, modet är det som driver oss framåt. Får oss tro på ett annat liv. Mod, det är att hoppas.

Har du aldrig varit rädd att ni var för olika? - Jag ska ge dig ett gott råd: om du är på ett ställe där alla människor är som du, stick därifrån så fort du kan!

Regnet piskade honom i nacken, rann in under rocken och blöte ner hans skjorta som klistrade sig mot ryggen. Till och med uniformen hade förlorat sin värdighet.

Sembra che per te nulla sia un problema. -Forse perché mi piace cercare le soluzioni, e così non ho paura dei problemi.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you. I don't know who said that, but I know it's the truth.

Loose screws are how the light gets in.

By the way, it's harder to become less tough once you have it than it is to become tough.

In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.

I am beginning to see how grief has transformed me, humbled me, opened me up, cut through the bullshit of my being. It's not growth anyone wants to do. It's growth that has been thrust upon us, ripped from us, has come from being punched in the soul and kicked in the heart. You have no choice.

Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

there misery and calamity have begun'.

those taken captive.

he decided that his only remaining option was to take his case to Rome.

assaulted and robbed, and many of his companions were killed.

Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Au milieu d'un monde qui s'écroule, on veut mourir debout. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.

En cuanto somos desdichados, nos volvemos morales.

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtain access to their divine form and thus joyfully to people our lives with divinities.

Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.