Halima Aden Quotes

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

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.

I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.