Quotes About Adversity

Hard tasks need hard ways.

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. --from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within." Sister

What's a gom jabbar?

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. — The Gowachin, a BuSab analysis

They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

When you live upon Arrakis," she had said, "khala, the land is empty. The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that"—Bickel snapped his fingers—"and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?

Fedaykin," Jessica said, reminding him of his old service to her family, "we who have been scorched know how to stand back to back.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

When you stumble," he said, "you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.

HoÅŸnutsuzluk bilimi diye bir ÅŸey olmal?yd?. Ä°nsanlar ruhsal kaslar?n? geliÅŸtirmek için zor zamanlara ve s?k?nt?lara ihtiyaç duyar.

Anything and anyone can fail," he said, "but brave good friends help.

Herkes, her ?ey ba?ar?s?z olabilir... ama cesur dostlar yard?m eder.

Ar trebui s? existe o ?tiin?? a nemul?umirii. Oamenii au nevoie de suferin?e ?i de oprimare ca s?-?i dezvolte mu?chi psihici.

Înfrunt?-È›i spaimele sau È›i se vor c???ra în spinare.

may your blade chip and shatter

The world is for the living. Who are they? We dared the dark to reach the white and warm. She was the wind when the wind was in my way. Alive at noon, I perished in her form. Who rise from the flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world and light is all. —THEODORE ROETHKE (HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS: DAR-ES-BALAT)