Quotes About Adversity

Courage is the answer. Because courage doesn't negate the problem, it exists within the problem. And when you realize the answer lies in taking the problem and living in spite of it, with full awareness of it, you feel a new option and a new sense of hope and life.

If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.

If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries. It is far more likely to be a bowl of problems, worries, and difficulties. This is normal and should not be cause for alarm.

Agatha Swanburn - "Luck is only luck; the bad is often merely good in disguise.

The misfortune! The misery! The . . . whatever is worse than misery!

Maryrose Wood

Maryrose Wood

Buck-buck, buck-buck!

Maryrose Wood

La vie n'est pas toujours (ou même jamais) rose, Il est beaucoup plus probable qu'elle soit ombragée par les problèmes, les inquiétudes et les difficultés. C'est tout à fait normal, et personne ne devrait s'en alarmer

Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell

If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it

Según la famosa frase de Epicteto: «Soporta y resiste».

Al contrario, se trata de alcanzar lo que los estoicos llaman apatheia que, a pesar del eco obvio y poco atractivo que despierta, hemos visto que significa tranquilidad mental, y también ecuanimidad hacia todo lo que la vida nos ponga en el camino.

la verdadera amistad, como el amor verdadero, se revela cuando las cosas van mal, no cuando todo es fácil y bonito.

Haz el mejor uso posible de lo que está en tu poder, y toma el resto como acontezca

no importa lo que soportas, sino cómo lo soportas».

las dificultades representan oportunidades para convertirte en una persona mejor y, con la práctica, es posible emocionarse con esas oportunidades. La virtud es un regalo que perdura:

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes