L. Lionel Kendrick Quotes

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.