Quotes About Adversity

It was sink or swim for him—and happens he's swimming.

We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: "We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."9

Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: "We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl distills a profound truth: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."9

Don't fear suffering. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The facts are always friendly. Without a little agony, none of us would bother to learn a thing. The earth has to be tilled before the seeds can be planted.

I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.

Some things suck; they hurt bad. The question is, Do you have the courage to let them?

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

It is sheer hell in this house. I would have to be quite a writer to describe it properly. Anyhow, I sprang from the chaos and it is my business to pull myself out of it.

To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup.

Nefericire cel ce vrea s?-ÅŸi p?streze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! PuÅŸca, unde mi-e puÅŸca? (Se întoarce cu faÅ£a c?tre capetele de rinoceri din fundal ÅŸi strig?) Am s? m? ap?r împotriva lumii întregi, m? voi ap?ra! Sunt ultimul om ÅŸi voi r?mîne aÅŸa pîn? la cea din urm? suflare! Nu m? dau b?tut!

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.

in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia

idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

You have navigated with raging soul far from the paternal home, passing beyond the seas' double rocks and now you inhabit a foreign land.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

It can be crazy hard. To keep your faith, to keep going. It can be harder than I ever would have imagined. Sometimes things happen to you, really bad things that aren't fair, things that make you feel so terrible you're not even sure who you are anymore or whether you're right or wrong, good or bad. Sometimes you feel like there's no one to turn to, and you're all alone and so scared you can hardly move and so tired you just want to curl up in a ball and go to sleep forever.

You feel ugly, you feel used, you feel broken you feel bruised. Ahh but me, I can see all the beauty underneath. You've been robbed of love and pride. Been ignored and cast aside. Even so, I still know there is beauty underneath. Diamonds never sparkled bright, if they are they are set just right. Beauty sometimes goes unseen. -Phantom

Adversity favours the versatile.