Chester Bennington Quotes

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

Despite everything that's going on, people need love.

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.