Quotes About Adversity

Thanks to Paracetco

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks more in the way of human response

Gli essere umani sono bravissimi sono bravissimi a crearsi un inferno perfino nell'abbondanza.

Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.

There are fewer and fewer jobs among us, more of us being born, more kids growing up with nothing to look forward to. One way or another, we'll all be poor some day. The adults say things will get better, but they never have.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

You're so young. It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times.

My god," Bankole said. "This country has slipped back two hundred years." "Things were better when I was little," Emery said. "My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything.

Consigo tolerar muita dor sem me deixar abater. Tive que aprender a fazer isso. Mas foi difícil, hoje, continuar pedalando e acompanhar os outros quando todo mundo que eu via fazia com que me sentisse cada vez pior.

You can beat this thing. You don't have to give in to it.

So when I did decide that I had to fight, I set out to hurt the other kid more than kids usually hurt one another.

That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.

Luffy: "Shanks you arm!" Shanks: "Its no big deal. Just one arm. I'm glad your safe

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

May we not die premature deaths; instead, may our troubles be limited to pangs of hunger. A man with life will find food to put in the stomach. If death doesn't kill the penis, it soon eats bearded meat.

When something frightens them, they do not run but go to face it. They take up arms and go to the front. They are not afraid to live, and to die, too, if they have to: they already know that, too is a part of life.

Det vonde drep du ikkje med øks.

No. No risk, no failure. And without failure you're not really human. You're just skating on the surface of life.

So long had it been since we had eaten civilized provisions that we could not identify it. After much reflection I realized that it was simply bread spread with lard or grease.

One internee told me that he had been in their barrack while they waited for the trucks. The children were sitting on the floor, wide-eyed and silent. He asked one lad, "Well, how are you, Janeck?" With a thoughtful expression on his face, the child answered, "Everything is so bad here that it can only be better 'over there.' I am not afraid.