J. B. Smoove Quotes

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

I feel I have a lot to share, I have stories for years, and I've been through everything, there's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't been through.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

Pressure lets you know what kind of person you are.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.

I was thrust into an adult world very quickly, and that can make anyone somewhat socially maladjusted to dealing with people your own age. But I wouldn't trade any of it.

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.