Ryan Higa Quotes

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but I don't look back on anything with regret.

If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

Because of how much I've gone through, I want to say I'm more wise than my age.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.