Srikumar Rao Quotes

Misfortune was my god.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

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

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Bad things happen sometimes.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

I spent some time in Hell.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.

People need to know what I've gone through.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.