Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

Playing devil's advocate with myself is very, very hard. It's a 24-hour thing. Because I know there's a possibility that people are going to come after me, they're not going to understand me, so I have to be ready.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

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.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.