Chris Gibson Quotes

I've gone through hell and back.

To the stars through thorns.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

I have lived through very difficult times.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'