Robin Williams Quotes

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

I'm grateful for all the experiences, even the negative ones.

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.

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

I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.

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

The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.