Quotes About Adversity

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights with us is so great.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

Ist dir Trinken bitter, werde Wein.

If what you're drinking is bitter, let yourself be the wine.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

But it is over now; I have survived it.

Winning does not tempt that man, This is how he grows, by being defeated decisively, by greater and greater beings.' The Man Watching ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Hayatta yeni baÅŸlayanlar için s?n?flar yok, insandan derhal en zor ÅŸeyi isterler daima.

Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Between hammers pounding, the heart exists, like the tongue between the teeth—which still, however, does the praising.

Aber Ihre Einsamkeit wird Ihnen auch inmitten fremder Verhältnisse Halt und Heimat sein, und aus ihr heraus werden Sie alle Ihre Wege finden.

Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth.

Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in a circle, meeting your old selves coming and going and perhaps all at the same time.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. ? Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . (Vintage International; 2nd edition March 14, 1995) Originally published 1952.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust right open.

I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.