James Langevin Quotes

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

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

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

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.

We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.