Quotes About Adversity

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured.

you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. a

Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight.

Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place.

You learn to smile even in you liver?' 'Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver.

For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.

Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful.

Struggle explained everything.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. a

The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival.

I MYSELF HAVE CLUNG TO EXISTENCE LIKE A BARNACLE TO A BOAT BOTTOM

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")

What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?

He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.

The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, the don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think.

Y si después de pasar por una época tan tenebrosa ves que queda un atisbo de felicidad en tu interior, no te queda más remedio que agarrar esa felicidad aunque acabes con la cara entera manchada de barro.

It's not fair for you to come here," I tell Depression. "I paid you off already. I served my time back in New York." But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.

they quit as soon as things aren't easy anymore, as soon as it gets painful, or boring, or agitating. They quit as soon as they see something in their minds that scares them or hurts them. So they miss the good part, the wild part, the transformative part—the part when you push past the difficulty and enter into some raw new unexplored universe within yourself.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.