Quotes About Adversity

But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.

She must move. Which is why we have made it deliberately uncomfortable, painful and traumatic for her.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,

Manuel Benítez «El Cordobés» dijo a su hermana en sus comienzos en el mundo del toro, cuando aún era un rapaz sin un duro: «O triunfo o llevarás luto por mí». Aquel primerizo con los estoques se convirtió, andando el tiempo, en el mayor torero de su época. El Cordobés era más toro que los toros

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.

Life is trying to kill us," she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.