Adam Duritz Quotes

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.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

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

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.