Dan Fogelberg Quotes

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Necessity, which even makes cowards brave ...

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

More can I bear than you dare execute.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.