Celia Rivenbark Quotes

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing . . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

There is always something to be grateful for.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

Barnes are blessings.

I even feel grateful for the failures.

When you face adversity . . . don't' ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?

I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

If you can't give thanks for what you have, then give thanks for what you have avoided.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.