Laini Taylor Quotes

I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

... Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

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.