Simon Van Booy Quotes

I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Everybody has their struggles.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I'm going to be pretty strong until I die.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

As long as one suffers one lives.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.