Richard Brautigan Quotes

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Life is not mean to be easy.

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.