Charles Dickens Quotes

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Out of evil can come great good.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

Sometimes you have to be very bad before you can be very good.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.