How to Deal with Adversity Quotes

“The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer recounts a fable in which he compares human beings to porcupines. On a cold day, the porcupines huddled together for warmth, but, in doing so, hurt each other with their spines. So they moved apart, but in this way became cold again.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“the only way a marriage can be successful is that the husband is scared shitless of his wife”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“Being an individual is not so much a matter of doing what others have not done or do not do, as it is a matter of doing it in a spirit expressive of your whole being. If you do this, then, as Gould says, you do not beat death; but death cannot beat you.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“And it is not possible for us, by our most chimerical wishes, to form the idea of a station or situation altogether desirable.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“history is a scene of such relentless suffering inflicted by human beings on themselves and on each other because – or, at any rate, largely because – there have been endless individuals who were sure they knew the truth and sought to get others to agree with them. For those who feel sure they have the answers are usually pretty keen to impose them on others.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“All of us are inconsiderate and imprudent, all unreliable, dissatisfied, ambitious … corrupt,’ as the Roman philosopher Seneca reminds us pithily. ‘Therefore, whatever fault he censures in another man, every man will find it residing in his own heart’ (‘On Anger’: 40).”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity