Quotes About Adversity

We're not going to do better next time.

Was uns nicht umbringt, bewirkt nur, dass wir sterben wollen.

The light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for you.

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.

Sometimes shattering is the best excuse to rebuild yourself on a better foundation.

Every disadvantage has an advantage.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

for each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.

Depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences!

The writer James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

We have fundamental limitations," Adam added. "We could ignore them, and pretend we're capable of everything we would wish—or we can acknowledge them, and live our lives in a better way.

Are we going to stand up and fight invasive technologies or are we going to let them win by default?

It's easier to find serenity through meditation when you haven't just lost your job and you aren't wondering how you're going to avoid being evicted next Tuesday.

James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I was feeling so lost and depressed, but now, okay … I am a fighter. I feel good. You come out of your corner crying, and you start to fight." She blew her smoke away from me, into the air. "It changes you," she said. "You feel strong then.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Ich sag euch, ich hab schon so viel Malheur g'habt, und allzeit durch meine Räusch. Wann ich mir meinen Verdruß nit versaufet, ich müßt mich grad aus Verzweiflung dem Trunk ergeben.

Zum Erwerben eines Glücks gehört Fleiß und Geduld, und zur Erhaltung desselben gehört Mäßigung und Vorsicht. Langsam und Schritt für Schritt steigt man eine Treppe hinauf. Aber in einem Augenblick fällt man hinab, und bringt Wunden und Schmerzen genug mit auf die Erde.

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.