A. C. Benson Quotes

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

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

I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

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

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.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

Talking through troubles, staying calm in the face of adversity, that's what my father taught me. It's an invaluable lesson because there's no shortage of adversity and mistakes to be dealt with.

You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

Hard moments can happen with anyone. And these are the situations that you have to overcome.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

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.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.