Quotes About Adversity

I found life easy, easiest, when it demanded the most difficult things of me.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry. They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence.

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.

What makes Heroic? — To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?

Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

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Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you

The poison from which the weaker nature perishes strengthens the strong man - and he does not call it poison.

Life is a dark chain of events.

that which does not kill him makes him stronger.

What makes one heroic?— Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster

To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget [...]. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine love of one's enemies is possible

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...

That which does not kill us makes us stronger." ? Friedrich Nietzsche