Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann LandersRead
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life will present challenges, but facing them with confidence is crucial.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of troubles in life and encourages individuals to confront these challenges with strength and resilience. By adopting a confident attitude and refusing to be defeated, one can rise above adversity and emerge stronger.
Themes
TroubleLifeResilienceStrengthConfidence
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech at a school assembly.
More from Ann Landers
All quotes →All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann LandersRead
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann LandersRead
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann LandersRead
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann LandersRead
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann LandersRead
Similar quotes
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
Arthur MillerRead
At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them
Paulo CoelhoRead
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert FulghumRead
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.
Philip K. DickRead
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
Jodi PicoultRead
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
Yo-Yo MaRead