Quotes About Adversity

Pojedinac koji ho?e da se uzdigne iznad svojih bližnjih nalik je na kota? na blatnoj cesti: zakotrljao se, ali i zaprljat ?e se!

Ja sam, vidite, zgažen. Zašto? Zato jer sam se usudio usprotiviti ljudskoj gluposti...

Život je blatna cesta.

I to je baš bilo ono divno u toj stvari: stajati u katastrofi uz jednog ?ovjeka, koji je smion, a ima iza sebe sve i obra?unao je sa svim! S takvom jednom snagom, koja se zanosi njegovom vlastitom snagom, dalo bi se stvarati!

Godinama živio sam u našem smrdljivom zvjerinjaku gotovo gluhonijem, pritajen i povu?en u sebe kao puž i pravi puzavac (...)

My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.

Oh lovely, lovely life that can toss us from horror to hilarity, without giving us time to take breath! No mater how dark it may be, yet, unfailingly, "Cheerfulness breaks in.

Every man and woman has chosen the "Everest" he or she wants to climb in life. Many who have tried climbing without a guide have discovered how treacherous the journey can be.

Pain is a companion, not a master.

fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.".,

In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were healthy and well fed. None suffered burns, head injuries, or gangrene.

Mitchell Zuckoff

she was a bookkeeper for the Port Authority, one week shy of her sixtieth birthday. She had limped down about one thousand steps from the 73rd floor, hobbled by fallen arches, a bad leg from having been hit by a car several months earlier, and assorted maladies. An office manager and others had helped Josephine to get this far, but she could go no farther and had sent her helpers ahead to safety. Now she was alone.

Pritchard buzzed them again, wagging his wings and waving from the cockpit. The dejected PN9E crew thought that was the last they'd see of the plane. But as they watched, Pritchard circled lower and lower over an area several miles away. On Pritchard's orders, Bottoms radioed: "Coming in anyway.

Wataru would never cry again. He turned to stone—a little stone in the shape of a boy.

When people are driven nearly mad, they are imbued with superhuman strength and are capable of almost supernatural deeds.

My grandmother once told me that while there is no suffering a person cannot endure, there is plenty of good fortune one can never hope to enjoy. I believe that.

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

Glory, causes, careers, and love mean nothing on an empty stomach. Because of food, I lost my self-respect; because of food, I suffered the humiliation of a lowly cur; and because of food I took up creative writing, with a vengeance.

Strong winds eventually cease, unhappy families return to peace

Había una vez un tal Jiang Zhiya, que atravesaba una racha de mala suerte. Si estaba vendiendo harina, soplaba un vendaval; si lo que vendía era carbón, el invierno venía suave; si alzaba la cabeza para lanzar sus lamentos al cielo, le caía en plena boca una cagada de pájaro.

And what if the Rockets only had 99 legs.

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.