adversity adaptation Quotes

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Work makes a callus against grief.