Natalia Vodianova Quotes

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

My life is a beautiful struggle.

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

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

I think about my mom and the things she went through, and things could always be a lot worse.

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

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

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

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

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

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.