Garth Nix Quotes

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

I've had 10 major operations. Four back surgeries. A hip replacement. A broken neck... But I consider myself lucky. I keep thinking after all these surgeries, my luck is going to run out.

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.