India Arie Quotes

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.

Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

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

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.