Mike Mills Quotes

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

We are all human beings. We all go through a lot at certain times of our lives.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

I want all my pain to count for something.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

You go through stuff, and you keep going.

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's life.