Quotes About Adversity

Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. —Friedrich Nietzsche

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My life has taught me that there is a wealth of strength within us, there is nothing we cannot handle. Life presents it's purpose and beauty in all sorts of ways. The trick is to stay open to one's strength, to not deny or strive to prove it, but rather to simply have it

A nation of 70 million can suffer, but it cannot die.

A storm may be raging at the surface, but the depths remain calm. The wise man always remains connected to the depths. On the other hand, he who knows only the surface and is unaware of the depths is lost when he is buffeted by the waves of suffering.

As the Dalai Lama explains: "Patience safeguards our peace of mind in the face of adversity. . .

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

Hope--I keep saying the word, marveling at it. Modern and world-weary, we think we are beyond it. Too wise, too jaded, we think we are past such a thing. We know what the world is, what men do to other men, and to women, and what anyone may do to a child. We have seen horrors. Executioners in uniforms. Poverty. Illness. Then It come with its threadlike feet and delicate wings. It drinks our sweat and tears, and once again we believe things are possible. [Édouard Manet]

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Life's challenges aren't supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

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History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.

There are no advantageous defeats, but there can be disastrous victories.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

El dolor es inevitable, el sufrimiento es opcional.

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.