Hannah Ware Quotes

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

I have been through a lot in my life, my parents divorced when I was 16, and it was a very difficult time.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

There comes a point in everybody's life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.

I have great memories from childhood. Of course, the divorce, when I was 11, was tough. But my mom, especially, did a great job in raising us.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.

You hear all the time that money can change people. Well, divorce can really change people.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.