Quotes About Adversity

Don't trip over haters, step over them

My mom always says, "Keep your chin up." That's how I ran into the door.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The harder I push, the further I fall.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

In my experience, you never get silver linings without clouds. Even then I knew enough of the world to understand that inner circles are always heavily fortified against newcomers, and royal favor always arouses jealousy.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Emerson, Translation from Omar Chiam

We live in hard times. Trouble should become easier to handle as we are older, but by then we know that the world is not cruel, only indifferent, and that hurts even more.

I don't like it, but as they say you can't make chickens without breaking eggs." The

Nadie es inmune a las tormentas de la vida. Aunque esté haciendo todas las cosas bien y vaya en la dirección correcta, las tormentas le alcanzarán. La cuestión no es si las tendrá o no, sino cómo responderá.

3. Las tormentas son pruebas de fe.

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. —Thucydides

seeing the elephant.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.

See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

Caught by a wave, my back to the ocean It knocks me off my feet and Just as I find my footing Here you come again

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.