Quotes About Adversity

Pois, por ora, a dor da perda é mais pesada que as areias ou os mares, ela pensou. Este mundo me privou de tudo, exceto do propósito mais antigo de todos: a vida de amanhã.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.

Conditio ut extremis

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. —THE COMMENTARIES

Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher. — Dosadi aphorism

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

May thy knife chip and shatter.

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath

todos los peligros son valiosos si uno está preparado para afrontarlos.

Debería existir una ciencia del descontento. La gente necesita tiempos difíciles y de opresión para desarrollar sus músculos físicos. · —De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan

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

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

Cu toÈ›ii ne str?duim s? evolu?m, dar, când ceva ne împiedic?, ne putem transfera potenÈ›ialul spre suferin?? - provocându-ne-o nou? înÈ™ine sau provocând-o altora.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood!

Dovrebbe esistere una scienza dell'infelicità. La gente ha bisogno di tempi difficili e di oppressione per sviluppare i propri muscoli psichici.

What do you give me?" All of the bitterness was there and a hint of the spice from her dried food.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

Se caminhasses num terreno plano, se tivesses a boa vontade de caminhar e desses apesar disso passos à rectaguarda, então tratar-se-ia de um caso desesperado; mas como sobes um pendor tão escarpado como tu próprio visto de baixo, os passos para trás só podem ser provocados pela natureza do terreno e não tens que desesperar.

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

Frank Miller

I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes.