Quotes about Adversity

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us