Quotes About Adversity

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People's true nature comes to the fore as soon as things start to go wrong.

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

la locura es un enemigo que acecha durante toda la vida, un buitre que te ronda para devorarte. Aún peor: es un buitre impaciente que comienza a roerte las entrañas cuando aún no has muerto.

Aplastamos carbones con las manos desnudas y a veces conseguimos que parezcan diamantes

Porque suele suceder que lo que nos daña también puede curarnos.

El verdadero dolor es una ballena demasiado grande para poder ser arponeada.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your

To cheer herself up, Elfrida looked ahead, in positive fashion, which she had always found a reliable method of dealing with a sense of loss.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

All life, he thought as he tugged at the boulder, is a flight from mistake to mistake.

And he understood that now, more than ever in his life, there was nothing and no one to cushion him from the hardness of the earth.

Cuando el dolor es muy grande el sufrimiento es silencioso

Ultima said to take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weakness.

Take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weaknesses.

Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

Threatened men live long.

It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.