Quotes About Adversity

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

De la misma forma que una barra de hierro sometida a una llamapersistente se ablanda y dobla, sentía entonces que el metal de mi ánimo era gradualmenteablandado y doblado por las angustias que lo oprimían.

No todas las batallas se ganan atacando al enemigo por su flanco más débil; en ocasiones resulta aconsejable atacar justo en su punto fuerte.

People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they won't take the smallest action to change matters because they figure, What's the point?

Es ist uns nicht erlaubt uns fortzustehlen, mag uns ein Gott, mag uns ein Teufel quälen.

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

No, no tenga miedo por mí. Yo me he acercado a la muerte, y he visto ya que no resuelve nada; que todos los problemas hay que resolverlos de pie.

Conserva tu dignidad. Si un perro te muerde, no muerdas al perro.

En el juego de la desgracia, el verdugo y la víctima intercambian a menudo sus papeles... ¿Cómo

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man." -The Lost Steps

Right now, it didn't look good, the life. What doesn't kill you makes you horny.

Citeam toat? noaptea, toat? ziua, în loc s?-mi fac temele; la È™coal? citeam pe sub banc?[...]. M? simÈ›eam confortabil È™i sigur doar in spaÈ›iul imaginar al literarurii: f?r? un tat? absent, f?r? o mama deprimat?, f?r? b?t?uÈ™ii care m? puneau s? ling paginile c?rÈ›ii pân? când limba mi se înnegrea de la cerneal?.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.

Everyone is afraid. But one person falls to pieces from fear, and another person keeps it together. You see: fear remains the same for everyone, but the ability to bear it increases with practice; that is where brave men and heroes come from.

Muista, että parempi tippuvan räystään alla kuin yhteenliitettynä häijyn ämmän kanssa.

Tenía esa belleza de la que sólo los vencidos son capaces.

Through it all, they kept pecking at one another, as is too often the case with fellows in misfortune.