Quotes About Adversity

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive,' I say, spitting it out under my breath. 'That's actually when it's most important.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

And there's yer lesson. There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

_Of course you are afraid_, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. _And yet you will still do it._

I think everybody falls, I think we all do. And I don´t think that's the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive," I say, spitting it out under my breath. "That's actually when it's most important," Hildy says,

Wherever you are, it's okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that's not how it always looks. That's not how it's always going to look. There's more. There's always more.

War makes Monsters of Men

Of course you are afraid, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. And yet you will still do it.

Albert got her to her feet. He gathered her few wayward things and delicately placed a hand on an unburnt spot to help her walk. —You're going to have this two-tone problem for a while. Your backside is as white as virgin pearl. —A moan will have to suffice for a witty rejoinder. —I'll pretend to be dazzled.

my father had been brutal on me, but with him out of my life I had in turn become tough on myself. I knew enough about the game to be a pro but had never learned to have fun at it.

Se não se consegue acabar um trabalho com vinte e sete balas e uma faca, então é porque se está no negócio errado.

It is not those who inflict the most but those who suffer the most who will conquer,' MacSwiney declared.

Why did you not fight back?

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn't want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.