Nathan Parsons Quotes

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

And when things get tough, trust there is a bigger plan and that you will be stronger for it.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

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

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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.

When life is hard, you have to change.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.