Joss Whedon Quotes

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.