Quotes About Adversity

Ser invencible depende de uno mismo. Ser vulnerable, del enemigo"».

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.

I'm not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the woman you made me. Elena is at war.

You are killing me." " -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

After three weeks of constant bobbing and weaving, constant trouble, constant worry, my final week in Guerrera would be calm and serene.

May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you've handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don't have to sweat it any more, you've taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it.

The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.

Howard Hughes was in serious trouble.

Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.