Ja Rule Quotes

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

I don't know if me and my dad have necessarily touched on this because we talk about Reid but not a lot. But me wrestling, I think, ultimately saved my dad's career and not only saved my life but definitely put a whole other chapter that no one saw coming because it could've been rock bottom after my brother passed away.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.

Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.

After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.

I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.