Quotes About Adversity

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

I was shipwrecked beneath a stormless sky in a sea shallow enough to stand up in.

Only unhappiness raises us up — and the tedium we draw from that unhappiness is as heraldic as being the descendant of distant heroes.

Great suffering can give us the illusion of being Pain's Chosen One.

De tudo, ficaram três coisas: a certeza de que ele estava sempre começando, a certeza de que era preciso continuar e a certeza de que seria interrompido antes de terminar. Fazer da interrupção um caminho novo. Fazer da queda um passo de dança, do medo uma escada, do sono uma ponte, da procura um encontro.

sino libres para responder a lo que nos pasa de tal o cual modo

Aunque no podamos elegir lo que nos pasa, podemos en cambio elegir lo que hacer frente a lo que nos pasa.

inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan. --Fidel Castro

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.

Any criticism at all which depresses you to the extent that you feel you cannot ever write anything worth anything is from the Devil and to subject yourself to it is for you an occasion of sin. In you the talent is there and you are expected to use it. Whether the work itself is completely successful, or whether you ever get any worldly success out of it, is a matter of no concern to you. It is like the Japanese swordsmen who are indifferent to getting slain in the duel.

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.

But there are times when the sharpest suffering is not to suffer and the worse affliction not to be afflicted.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

Everyone knows I am fast, so I have to change the way I play. I always know I have to change the way I score. Every game is different.

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

My first match was on television with no buffer, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I feel like I've learned faster than a lot of other people for that reason.

Generally, when I have a faster car, I just drive around the lapped cars that I'm lapping.