LaToya Jackson Quotes

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Failure is an event-it’s not who you are. Don’t let that label get stuck on you. If one dream dies, dream another dream.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

One mistake, your winning streak is over and you've got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it's also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?

It doesn't matter what happened in the season or what happened the last play, there's always an opportunity to make the next play.

When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.