Lisa Scottoline Quotes

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

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

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.