Tim Matheson Quotes

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. I meditate on positive energy, goals, and long-term happiness. Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there's also disappointment that comes along the way. So it becomes about how you deal with the ups and downs.

Sometimes things don't happen in the way you want it to. But that's sport.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.