Ariel Sharon Quotes

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

I'm a survivor.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.