Maureen Johnson Quotes

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

When life is hard, you have to change.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Life Sucks,get a helmet

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.