Lauren Groff Quotes

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

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.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

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.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.