Quotes About Adversity

My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.

After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'

I chose commerce while at school, but didn't get admission for B.Com in any college, based on my marks. Hence, I decided to pursue History Honours, which I eventually graduated in, from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

Why sit, be negative and be sad and depressed? You got to kind of push everything to the side and just focus on just getting better.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

I've been put down, pushed aside, knocked out.

When I'm pushed, I shove.

When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.

I'm fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I'm really scared of heights and scared of ledges.