Quotes About Adversity

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

Do?ru, bu dünyada gerçekten de kötü ?eyler var; ama ayn? zamanda harika kitaplar da var.

Vivendo minha sorte, com lutas e guerras!

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.

E a gente raivava alto, para retardar o surgir do medo — e a tristeza em crú — sem se saber por que, mas que era de todos, unidos malaventurados.

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

O que demasia na gente é a força feia do sofrimento, própria, não é a qualidade do sofrente.

o diabo na rua, no meio do redemoinho…

That's the magic of life. It happens in ways that challenges our plans.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

Elden started toward me, "I think that's enough!" The man I almost knocked down bolted from his chair and shouted, "Let her speak!" Yield, rat boy!

And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.

Let me tell you something about sad days. They're just part of life, but the best thing you can do on the happy days or on the sad ones is to do what you do best with everything you've got.

You're going to fall down in this life—everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.

He shouted out like a drill sergeant, " Men, are we having fun yet? "No sir!" the vets cried out. " Men , are we going to fight like soldiers or fools?" The vets looked at one another, grinned. "Like fools, sir!" Everyone laughed. Luger dropped his cup again, but this time he kicked it hard across the room. " I can still kick! And everyone in rehab worked a little harder.

but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

In life you have to laugh or you'll cry