John Owen Quotes

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Not every cloud has a silver lining.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Misfortune was my god.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.