Quotes About Adversity

In fact, it is probably this very quality of Shintaro's – this sense that he has remained somehow unscathed by things – which has led me to enjoy his company more and more over these recent years.

Nuestra desgracia fue haber sido hombres normales en una época que no lo era.

It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself.

A veces es muy difícil, lo sé. Es como si todo tu mundo se derrumbara a tu alrededor. Pero te diré una cosa, Jenny. Estás llevando a cabo maravillosamente la tarea de ir poniendo de nuevo las piezas en su sitio. Créeme, es cierto. Sé que jamás podrá ser lo mismo, pero sé también que está en tu mano seguir en la brecha y llegar a forjarte un futuro feliz. Y yo siempre estaré aquí para ayudarte. Quiero que lo sepas

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.

But was it wrong to put yourself first? That's called survival, right? If you're running for your life, you don't get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It's fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork—all for one and one for all—but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn't be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.

Gabriel, Ricky, and I fight against our roles as pawns by sticking together. That's where the original three failed. We will not repeat their mistakes.

Figures," Corey muttered. "Survive a forest fire, helicopter crash, and killer eels, only to slip on a rock.

Figures," Corey muttered. "Survive a forest fire, helicopter crash, and killer eels, only to slip on a rock." "That's what you get for trying to take charge," Hayley said. "No kidding.

Plenty of dead vegetation had blown in and dried out, and Daniel managed to knock rocks together, get a spark, and light a tiny blaze. Considering I'd escaped a raging forest fire earlier that day, I was good with tiny.

Daniel and I helped him up. "Oww…," he said. "There'd have been a bigger oww if he hadn't swerved," I said. "That would not look good on your obituary. Survived a helicopter crash, armed kidnappers, and three days in the woods, only to get mowed down by a passing redneck.

Stopping to whine is only going to get us nabbed by the cops when that bastard calls 911." "I wasn't whining," I said. "Close enough.

The universe is conspiring to destroy us." "If it was, I think it could have managed that a few times by now." "Ah, but that's the trick. You cheat death, it keeps trying.

has been afraid of all of these things at one time or another. Ever since he went to prison, he's realized that he doesn't have to be afraid. All he has to do is come up with a plan. Be prepared. It's just like the Boy Scouts, except you have to be even more prepared. You have to prepare for everything that the Boy Scouts didn't prepare you for, which is pretty much everything.

Kelly McClymer

Captain's Log... ...Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of... ...Eating pocket lint. It looks edible.

Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.

I've always been a reader; no matter what else I've lost, I hung on to that.

She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.