Washington Irving Quotes

The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.