Quotes About Adversity

Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.

Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.

way, he had hoped he would not. His life would

She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well.

felt. Storm.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She

Things will be sacrificed; people will suffer. That is the way life works when we are human.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.' 'Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how they may endure.' -Bergon and Cazaril talking over the past

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving , the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.

the gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it.

It's just a thing. You deal with it. As in, one damn thing after another? Yes, very like.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.