Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

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.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Life is not mean to be easy.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

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.

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 think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

When life is hard, you have to change.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

Adversity in life teaches you.