Quotes About Adversity

If there wasn't struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you're meant to be. And let's be honest. It would also be... super boring both in movies and in life.

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

I never knew I would go this far, but I was told by people it wouldn't happen, and now I own four restaurants, and I have one of the best shows on the Food Network. I'm living in the Super Bowl of food.

If I never got cut, I wouldn't have the Super Bowl ring.

People were saying John Elway should retire until he won the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl obviously wasn't in my cards, and I'm OK with that.

When you are the Super Bowl for every team you play, you're going to have a game or two where you don't have the fast ball working, and you're going to get some scares.

Losing the Super Bowl, it's awful, I don't wish that on anyone, unless I'm playing them, but I think it definitely was a teaching moment.

People are forever knocking kicking, but it's not easy, believe me. Ask Scott Norwood when he missed the field goal in the Super Bowl.

They can take a record from you, but no one can take a Super Bowl from you.

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final Enjoy every moment.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

And many a day's hours were like that. As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere in order to torment it slowly with needles. I felt each sharp prick of his playing, and it was: as if a rain fell on me in which all things change.

winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.