Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

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

I've gone through hell and back.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'