Heart Evangelista Quotes

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

I've discovered myself a little more, personality-wise just being put through certain situations, whether being in the spotlight, heartbreak, friends coming and going, family.

I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.

Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

Sometimes people have to go through hard times just to get to a happy place.

I am grateful to all the ups and downs in my life.

I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.

I realize now that God has been with me every step of my life - through the suffering.

I'm a walking testimony, a product of all the people in my life and my faith.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

I've had so many life expriences and those experiences create you little by little. You're never going to be the same person you were yesterday, right? I've definitely gone through some traumatic things that really changed my way of seeing.

I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I've learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I have seen life from just about every angle you can see it from.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.