Kristin Armstrong Quotes

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

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

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.