Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.