Margaret Atwood Quotes

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.