Quotes About Adversity

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and And treat those two impostors just the same

Anything from Kipling

Lie still, little frog. O though Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.

The Fore and Aft had enjoyed unbroken peace for five days, and were beginning, in spite of dysentery, to recover their nerve. But they were not happy, for they did not know the work in hand, and had they known, would not have known how to do it. Throughout those five days in which old soldiers might have taught them the craft of the game, they discussed together their misadventures in the past — how such an one was alive at dawn and dead ere the dusk

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . . If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim . . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.

Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be-- she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, You have to be tall as well, said Harriet.

Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.

Naraku holds my life in his hands. But I have no intention of remaining a servant forever to the likes of him! I am the wind. One day I shall be free!

We all lose our innocence soon enough; it's inescapable. Most of us aren't emotionally or intellectually ready for it until our thirties or even later, however, so when one loses it prematurely, in childhood and adolescence, through divorce or the sudden early death of a parent, it can leave one fixated on that loss for a lifetime. Because it's premature, it feels unnatural, violent and unnecessary, a permanent, gratuitous wounding, and it leaves one angry at the world

Wel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on nor there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve jus got to clinch your teef and get on with it.

What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe.

He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.

sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Could a child who had never been inside a house, who had never seen a bathtub, or a flush toilet, who had long forgotten what his parents looked like before they were shot or burned, ever be normal?

And we can grow as much through our mistakes, through our failures, as we can through our successes.

Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

while the hookers and junkies spun like windblown litter in their wake.

What's the storm called, anyway?" "Progress." She grinned.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.

if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools, or make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss, you'll be a man.