You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
At Helsingborgs, there were ups and downs, and you need to learn how to handle it.
There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.
There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.
There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.
I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.
I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.
I can handle ups and downs.
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.
I had some rainy days, I didn't handle those rainy days. I walked out without an umbrella sometimes. I'm going to be more mentally prepared for my downs, because there are going to be ups and downs.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.
My dad was one of the original members of the Groundlings, and I watched him as an actor have ups and downs, and I watched my mom as a casting director have ups and downs.
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.