Quotes About Adversity

I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire.

She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones.

Tuan volgen oketh ama. I said, using on eof my favorite Siaru idioms. It meant 'don't let it make you crazy' but it translated literally as: 'don't put a spoon in your eye over it.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then.

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Sí, es como la vida misma- replicó ella-. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

Keys were hardly known for their complacency,

Llevaba la pobreza colgada del cuello como una piedra.

Quizá la mayor facultad que posee nuestra mente sea la capacidad de sobrellevar el dolor.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

Creo que las cosas siempre van mal de un modo u otro -declaró-. Quizá sea que solo nosotros, los mayores, nos damos cuenta.

Por desgracia, la vida casi nunca tiene un guión tan meticuloso.

Este es tu tercer regalo. Si te van mal las cosas, puedes quedarte conmigo en la subrealidad. Es un sitio agradable, y allí estarás a salvo.

Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.

I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing. - Lanre

Hay un montón de hombres que no se proponen otra cosa que tumbarme. Y solo hay uno que intenta todo lo contrario. Asegurarse de que tengo los pies firmes en el suelo, para que no me caiga.

What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

No podías nadar contra la corriente ni cambiar la dirección del viento. ¿Y si había tormenta? Pues tenías que atrancar las escotillas y achicar, y no soltar las jarcias.

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.

The smaller you are, the more bravery means.

Nobles' sons are one of nature's great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you're struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.