Janis Ian Quotes

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

Turn your scars into stars.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.

To me, 'Garden of Delete' is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.