Amy Goodman Quotes

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.

That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

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.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.

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

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.