Quotes About Adversity

Io credo che tutto accada per una ragione. Le persone cambiano perché tu possa imparare a lasciarle andare via. Le cose vanno male perché tu le possa apprezzare quando invece vanno bene, credi alle bugie perché poi imparerai a non fidarti di nessuno tranne che di te stesso, e qualche volta le cose buone vanno in pezzi perché cose migliori possano accadere.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way

I believe things happen for a reason. People change so that  you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually start to trust no one but yourself, & sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

That's the way of the world. Sometimes you eat. Sometimes you get eaten.

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Si je suis en pleine mer? Un jour, deux jours, un an, je nagerai sur le ventre. Quand je n'en pourrai plus, je me mettrai sur le dos. Ensuite, sur le côté. Puis sur un doigt, un fil de cheveu, un filet d' âme, un filet de souffle, un reste de soupir... Quoi qu'il advienne, je m'en sortirai. (extrait de "Jonas", p. 44)

O sa-ti dau sah si-ti pierzi optimismul, Imi spune el. - Nu-i nimic, glumesc eu, Fac rocada sentimentelor.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Nadira," Auntie tells me. "Those that hear bad news and want to run away and those that dig their feet in and want to fight.

You gave up because everything stopped being easy. Just because you couldn't conquer this thing like you always did.

it's because the two of them hoped so hard; when things started going wrong for us they broke inside.

Sounds like someone's found a turd floating in the punch bowl, and I'm supposed to fish it out." Trouble followed me everywhere.

Cavagnolo and I stepped from behind the trees and back to the clearing. Flies swarmed around us, perhaps hoping we'd also drop dead and add to the feast.

Rechazar ciertas pruebas porque son difíciles es también rechazarnos a nosotros mismos, aunque no seamos conscientes de ello. No necesitamos reducir el tamaño de la prueba, sino aumentar nuestra fortaleza frente a ella.

La serenidad no surge de vivir en las circunstancias ideales como reflejan los otros cuadros con sus mares en calma y sus cielos despejados. La serenidad es la capacidad de mantener centrada tu atención, en medio de la dificultad, en aquello que para ti es una prioridad.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Bastante amarga es la vida como para que, además, nos pongamos plañideros o mimosos o histéticos, sólo porque algo se puso en nuestro camino y no nos deja proseguir nuestra excursión hacia la dicha, que a veces está al lado del desatino

uno no sabe quién es realmente, cuán incinerable o incombustible es, hasta que no pasa por alguna hoguera.

Pessoa: «Espera lo mejor y prepárate para lo peor».

En los dos primeros años ni siquiera tenía luna, así que no me quejo. Siempre hay alguien que está peor

Qué es este exilio sino otro comienzo?

cuando uno se deja vencer, se va deformando, se va convirtiendo en una grosera parodia de sí mismo.

Allí donde normalmente va la dignidad, él sólo tiene un muñón; se la amputaron.