Quotes About Adversity

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To Leah and Henry. Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to. From

But the odds against me were getting higher each day. I, who was my own worst enemy, needed a best friend. I thought booze was my friend. I did not know I was in a fight—not just with my lawyers, not just with my husband, but also with my disease. I didn't know I could not win this one on my own, that it would take years, and a change of mind and heart, to win the battle with an opponent I could not even see.

Tout homme qui dirige, qui fait quelque chose, a contre lui ceux qui voudraient faire la même chose, ceux qui font précisément le contraire et surtout la grande armée des gens, d'autant plus sévères, qu'ils ne font rien du tout.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me?

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

This was a dog that had lived a nightmare of a life and still never whined or howled or cried out of pain or discomfort. You don't make a sound, I learned from Wonder, when no one ever comes to see how you're doing.

Duniya ne kaha kabhi kisi ko khuch diya hain jo diya hain woh bhi chin liya hain

Ek umar guzar gayi ghar ke jhagdho mein Phir duniya ne bhi jeena muhaal kar diya

Jiska bachpan hi ghar ki ladaaiya dekh guzra ho Woh ab dara sehma sa rehta hain toh zamaane ko malaal kyu

Tum gairo se toh jeet jaaoge par apno se haar jaaoge

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation becomes a game.

Whatever we thought about art and its relation to life, we knew that the Faulkner motto we had adopted in harder times no longer served. "They kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit" was no watchword for this world so full of interest, instruction, suggestiveness, possibility,

But the day that had started crooked insisted on going crooked, like a cross-threaded screw.