What were some famous people who went through tough times and came out on top?

Question

Know any famous ones who went through very tough times but came out on top and all went well for them? This is for my friend, going through severe depression. Thanks!

Answer 1

Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, britney spears.
i hope she's ok yaw.

Answer 2

It depends, of course, what you mean by tough times. Dante, for example, was in love with Beatrice and she never loved him back and died when she was very young. He was then exiled from his beloved Florence, the city he so loved. Yet despite this exile he wrote The Divine Comedy which some regard as the greatest text of all poetic literature. John Milton went blind when he was still a relatively young man and yet went on to write Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Cervantes spent ages imprisoned and yet his Don Quixote is perhaps the finest novel ever written. Guiseppe Garibaldi, the man who unified Italy, watched his beloved wife die on a beach during one of his campaigns. Lance Armstrong, as everyone knows, had Cancer before he became the greatest bicycle racer of all time.

The answer to your question is, of course, that everone has gone through tough time of one sort or another. Some are tougher than others.

There is a story that a woman who lost a small child went to the Buddha and asked him how she could cope with her grief. The Buddha said that she should go through the town and knock on every door until she found a household that could not tell of some tragedy and then she would understand her grief. Of course the woman knocked on every door but could not find one that had not been the scene of some sad event. It was then that she realized that it wasn't the tragedy so much as how she dealt with it that was important.

Peace

Answer 3

Everyone, famous or not, rich or poor go thru tough times at one time or another. Everyone deals with tough times in their own ways. What makes a famous person come thru it is exactly what made them important in the first place, preserverance or stick to it ness. They know what happens today is only temporary and will definitely change tomorrow or the day after. They learn to trust themselves and to adapt to lifes challenges that come along. Hope you understand this and good luck. Merry Christmas

Answer 4

Ozzy Osbourne
Glenn Danzig
Michale Graves
Tom Waits

Answer 5

oprah, jim carrey,