Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

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.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

I am not saying everything's perfect, but I embrace anything bad because that makes me appreciate all the good.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

I honestly think the biggest trials end up teaching you how to let go.

Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'