Margaret Mitchell Quotes

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

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.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.