Jamie Kennedy Quotes

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

I've been fighting my whole life.

I've been fighting for a long time.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've always believed in survival.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.