Quotes About Adversity

Aquele negócio de autorrealização era difícil de mais, pensou ela. Nina mal estava conseguindo ler uma única palavra, e isso foi a gota d'água. Lennox até podia ter arruinado a vida sexual dela, sua paz de espírito, suas esperanças de ser feliz algum dia, seu ganha-pão. Mas NINGUÉM iria arruinar sua leitura.

In my country I was an engineer, and taught at the university. I had a big house, many nice things. Then they decide they no longer like universities. Here I cook greasy sausage for 15 hours a day. Lots of people have hard things in their lives.

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.

Comment aurais-tu pu apprécier à quel point la vie peut être belle, si elle n'avait jamais été pourrie?

Al die jaren hebben je gebracht waar je nu bent, hield ze zichzelf voor. Die jaren waren onontbeerlijk geweest. Als je gelukkig was geboren, hoe wist je dan wat het betekende om gelukkig te zijn? Hoe kon je je fijne leventje waarderen als je nooit in de shit had gezeten?

People get up every day and walk about with smiles on their faces who have been through things you and I could never imagine.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.

That's life. Things don't always work out.

Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog.

Disappointment is good for kids; it prepares them for the real world, where it's not all about them and their feelings.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog." -Belly

Cinderbelly.

It felt like the world was ending and nothing would ever be the same again. It was, and it wouldn't.

What's the fun in anything if there aren't a few roadblocks to spice things up?

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn't have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness.

In the past, we'd talked about books and other people, but now we talked only of our respective babies, hers sweet-faced and docile, mine at war with the world.

When my father saw my bloody elbows and knees, he tried to talk me out of flying. "People aren't cut out for it," he explained. "Our bodies are designed all wrong." I didn't believe him. He was the one who had told me about bumblebees, how their wings were too flimsy to support their fat bodies; yet, in the summer, they were everywhere, buzzing impossibly by.

Out of dark waters, this.