Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Hard moments can happen with anyone. And these are the situations that you have to overcome.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

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

Surviving, that's my plan.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

What do your parents know, about surviving?

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.