Barbra Streisand Quotes

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

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.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

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.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

Even though I wish I had a better childhood, I wouldn't trade it, because it made me who I am today. I still respect the people that hurt me.

When you live life like The Nature Boy, there are some monumental highs and, sadly, some unbelievable lows. No matter what happens in his life, he always comes back bigger and better than any of us can even imagine.

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

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.