Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

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.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

My life has always been full of challenges.

Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

Everyone can relate to struggle.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

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