Taika Waititi Quotes

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

You put me in here a cub, but I will come out a roaring lion.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

I believe I overcame a lot.

Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.