Jonathan Maberry Quotes

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

How was I to know that I'd be ok? I thought I'd lose it all when you walked away. How was I to know that I'd be this strong? I had what it takes all along. How was I to know?

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

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

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.