Jeff Baena Quotes

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

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

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

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

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.

Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

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

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.