Janette Turner Hospital Quotes

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

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

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

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.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

I just really know how to manage adversity.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

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.

You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

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