Arthur Golden Quotes

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.