James Gray Quotes

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

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.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.