Quotes on Rough Times

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.