Christopher Hitchens Quotes

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

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