Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

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

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

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.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

The struggle I went through has value.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

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