Ethel Barrymore Quotes

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He's left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.