Mark Twain Quotes

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

I had to get beat to understand how to win.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.