Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

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.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.