Difficult Experiences Quotes

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

Early on, yeah, my life was a bit of a roller coaster.

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it as I could because there is no other place like hell for a full and complete education.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Being bullied was the most difficult part of my early teen years.

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

My past is a bit checkered.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Perhaps our generation … will live to reflect … that our hard times were not in vain. They should make us more conscious of the conditions which we wish to eradicate.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.