Terri Blackstock Quotes

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

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

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.

When I was young I lost everything.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.