Yolanda Hadid Quotes

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I have done a lot of great things. I have a beautiful family and wonderful friends. But there were many times, dark times, that I almost let it all slip through my fingers.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.

Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.