Meredith Grey from the hit television show "Grey's Anatomy" is well known for her quotes and their inspiring life lessons. In the show, she struggles with multiple life-altering obstacles but she always has something to say about it and she always has a lesson to take away from it. She's easy to relate to, especially when it comes to drama involving boys, her friends, and dealing with her difficult family.
Everyone has their own issues and their own problems to deal with and sometimes it can be hard to find the motivation to make it through and move on. Here are 5 Meredith Grey quotes and life lessons to get you through any difficult situation and let you know that it's OK to not be perfect.
1. It's OK to lose hope.
"If there's just one piece of advice I can give you, it's this -- when there's something you really want, fight for it, don't give up no matter how hopeless it seems. And when you've lost hope, ask yourself if 10 years from now, you're gonna wish you gave it just one more shot because the best things in life, they don't come free."
Everyone loses hope at least once in their life. The important thing is that we pick ourselves back up and continue to fight for what we want. Nothing in life is free and all of the best things in life require work and effort.
2. It's OK to be scared.
"Sometimes it's good to be scared. It means you have something to lose."
Being scared is normal and while it can typically be viewed as a weakness, sometimes being scared means you care and can show how important something really is to you.
3. It's OK to feel lost.
"Just when we think we've figured things out the universe throws us a curve ball, so we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find our way back to the things that matter most. The universe is funny that way. Sometimes it just has a way of making sure we wind up exactly where we belong."
When people are asked what they want the most in their life, the usual response is that they want happiness. Everyone wants to be happy, but sometimes that happiness comes from things in our life that we don't expect. No matter what happens, though, what's meant to be will be.
4. It's OK to fail.
"Knowing is better than wondering, sleeping is better than waking, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying."
The best inventors failed countless times before they were eventually success. The same goes for the rest of us. We have to make mistakes and learn from them and continue to try if we want to be successful.
5. It's OK to be broken.
"You can build a house out of anything. Make it as strong as you want. But a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with. And people can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows what's broken can be mended. What's hurt can be healed. That no matter how dark it gets, the sun's going to rise again."
Healing takes time but it happens. We find ourselves in situations where we get hurt and we don't know if we'll ever recover, but we do. The world continues to spin and we heal and we become stronger for it.
Life will go on and everything will be fine. Meredith Grey says so.
