Luka Modric Quotes

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

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.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

I was injured many times, but life is like this, and I have to accept this.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Not everybody's journey is easy, and it wouldn't be worthwhile if you can't see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you've been through, what kind of scars you have.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

We learn from the things we suffer.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

Hardships make or break people.