Quotes About Adversity

can pay off on our failures, and Molly's grin had burned the hope right out of me.

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me?

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation.

Anything "bad" that happens in your life — use it for enlightenment.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

The opportunity that is concealed within every crisis does not manifest until all the facts of any given situation are acknowledged and fully accepted. As long as you deny them, as long as you try to escape from them or wish that things were different, the window of opportunity does not open up, and you remain trapped inside that situation, which will remain the same or deteriorate further.

Do you truly know what is positive and what is negative? Do you have the total picture? There have been many people for whom limitation, failure, loss, illness, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility, and compassion. It made them more real.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.

Sooner or later, disorder will irrupt into everyone's life no matter how many insurance policies he or she has. It

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.

All life forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.

you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes,...

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.