Mark Twain Quotes

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life -- surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.

Time wounds all heels.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

He who laughs.....lasts.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

What is stronger, fear or hope?