Shirley Temple Quotes

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.