Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I'm a survivor.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.