James Theodore Bent Quotes

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

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

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.