Margaret Turnbull Quotes

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

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Bad things happen. Cope!

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it's also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don't want to bother anyone.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.