Quotes About Adversity

The old man was going nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

No es que espere que salgáis en busca de Haliax y los Siete. «Hombres pequeños, actos pequeños», digo yo siempre. Imagino que el problema reside en encontrar un trabajo lo bastante pequeño para unos hombres como vosotros. Pero tenéis recursos. Podríais recoger basura, o mirar si hay piojos en las camas de los burdeles cuando los visitáis.

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To

What more can you expect?" she asked him quietly. "From men who live with demons for their neighbors? Even the best dog will bite that has been kicked enough.

I have been alone for most of my life. But rarely have I felt it so much as at that moment. I knew one person within four hundred miles, and he'd been ordered to keep away from me. I was unfamiliar with the culture, barely competent with the language, and the burning all across my back and face was a constant reminder of how much I was unwelcome. The food was good though.

Don't put a spoon in your eye over it

It had been treated unkindly in the past, but that didn't make it less lovely underneath.

The worst had happened, and it hadn't been that bad.

Still, it was sulk or sail.

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold.

She knew the way of things. 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. Like a wrist pinned hard beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and wine. . . .

O que mais pode esperar - perguntou-lhe baixinho - de homens que têm demônios como vizinhos? Até o melhor dos cães é capaz de morder, se for chutado o suficiente.

Ya lo dijo Teccam: no hay hombre valiente que nunca haya caminado cien kilómetros. Si quieres saber quién eres, camina hasta que no haya nadie que sepa tu nombre. Viajar nos pone en nuestro sitio, nos enseña más que ningún maestro, es amargo como una medicina, cruel como un espejo. Un largo tramo de camino te enseñará más sobre ti mismo que cien años de silenciosa introspección.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

No son buenos tiempos para ser un hombre valiente.

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 minimise the damage.

your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo.

I was like a sparrow in a storm, unable to find a safe branch to cling to. Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight.

Tuan volgen oketh ama ~ Lass dich davon nicht verrückt machen. Wörterlich aber bedeutet es: Steck dir deswegen keinen Löffel ins Auge.

No tienes las manos de un princesa frágil que pasa las horas haciendo encaje y que espera que llegue algún príncipe a salvarla. Son las manos de una mujer capaz de trepar por una cuerda hecha con su propio cabello para alcanzar la libertad, o de matar al ogro que la ha capturado mientras duerme.

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would've stood a chance of doing it.