Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these

In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

We all survive more than we think we can.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'