Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but learning to dance in the rain.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.