Nicholas Sparks Quotes

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may 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 ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

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

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

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

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

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.