“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”
Variant: You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Ken Kesey103
novelist 1935–2001Related quotes
“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.
It's really funny.”
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Kelsier, Chapter 13
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.”
Hayley Williams (1988) American singer-songwriter and musician
said to a fanbase account on Twitter via Direct Message
“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”
Cynthia Leitich Smith (1967) American writer and poet
Source: Tantalize
“A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Interview with ABC News, as quoted by Hilary Clinton.
2000s
“You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.”
Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
