Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

It wouldn't be in the typical fashion of the Go-Go's that anything isn't a struggle.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

Every fight is a fight for my life. And I step in the ring and make sure that I fight with that on the back of my mind.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

I like to see what happens to people when they're thrown into really crappy situations. I think it's really interesting to watch what decisions they make, how they deal with the feelings they have.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.