Amy Purdy Quotes

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

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

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

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.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

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

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

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.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

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

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.