Quotes About Adversity

In this school of life, it is impossible to need a particular lesson without that lesson appearing. It is impossible for a lesson to appear without your needing it. The next lesson is always ready and waiting.

David Sosnowski

To be famous and broke is hard.

You'd better find a way to laugh at life, because it will certainly make you cry.

We came from many different places, had many different pasts, belonged to a variety of races and nationalities; but under the boiling summer sun, when shade temperatures often reached the century mark, the heat beating our backs like hammer until I felt like a nail myself, we were brothers sharing sweat, building our own Jerusalem in a desolate place.

With my nose buried in the floorboards, I reflected that, in such situations, there are three kinds of people: those who stand in front of a tank and dare it to run over them, like the guy in Tiananmen Square; those who make brave speeches behind the barricades, like the students in Paris in 1968; and those, like me, who chew dirt.

Cette vie que tu as réduite à des petits tracas, à de légers soucis qui occupent ton esprit étroit comme l'anneau que tu portes à ton annulaire gauche.

Just tell yourself, "No broken windows.

Como todo en la vida, sólo lo que puede salir mal merece la pena intentarse.

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

But as ever in life, wherever there is tragedy, you can often find comedy.

sitting behind the controls of his Hurricane, taking on a squadron of deadly Messerschmitts, when

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis

In heart-stoppingly* eye-wateringly* bum-clenchingly* measure.

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis'. Translate that from the Latin, boy!

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

a bad bitch couldn't be judged by the amount of friends and followers she had; but by the level and the magnitude of her enemies.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Never be too willing to expose yourself to your weaknesses. Find ways to curve your weaknesses by forming buffers between your vices and your heart.

On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred.

Caxton crawled into the back while Arkeley took the front passenger seat. His fused vertebrae trumped her sprained ribs, he announced.

David Wellington

It turns out that dying in a blaze of glory is surprisingly easy, but living on, after your moment of triumph, is the hardest thing in the world.