Donna Tartt Quotes

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

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.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

When life is hard, you have to change.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.