Jami Attenberg Quotes

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).