Julian Baggini Quotes

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

The reward of pain is experience.

We learn from the things we suffer.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Every pain is a lesson.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

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.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The reward of suffering is experience.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.