Sara Shepard Quotes

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Everyone struggles with ups and downs and there is great therapy in knowing we all go through it.

I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

When life is hard, you have to change.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

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

You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.