Quotes about Adversity

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

Life was like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. But sometimes the game can have a surprise ending. And sometimes, when you think you've reached the end of the game, suddenly you find yourself standing in front of a whole new level. A level you've never seen before. And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool.