Peter Landesman Quotes

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

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.