Alexandra Bracken Quotes

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it