Rainn Wilson Quotes

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

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

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

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

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.