Jim Butcher Quotes

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

I've had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I've lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.