Bernie Siegel Quotes

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.