Quotes About Adversity

Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worst possible thing.

When you lose your face it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

We're not gonna know who we are as people until we've faced crises or loss, or when we have inexhaustible hope. Why do we hope? Why don't we give up? Who gives up?

I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

Or maybe he would turn to religion. Many Americans did so when faced with heartache and hardship.

Life was good until the putges came. After that, there was nothing to do except flee into the jungle, high up, where it was so thick only wold things grew. When the putgest stopped Black Spot and his grids and cousin went quietly to the town of Nyang Shwe, where they were not known. They procured black-market identity cards of dead people with good reputations. After that they lived two ways: in the open life of the dead, and in the hidden life of the living.

back as a mud-smashing

What happened to Violet was terrible, and I'm not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind.

Espero que con el tiempo sea como él sin tener que pasar por todo lo que él ha pasado.

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys and sorrows, I acquired one of the most precious sources of strength of all: an understanding of human beings, insight into their motivations.

I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive.

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

El dolor es para superarlo, no para revolcarse en él.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

La vida se encoge o se expande en proporción al coraje que uno tenga.

La vie se rétracte ou se dilate à proportion de notre courage

La derrota no es más que una fase para mí. Debo conquistar, vivir.

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.

She was blinded, deafened, made senseless.

And I grew in depth through sadness and self-doubt.