Demi Lovato Quotes

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

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

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.

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

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

We're stronger than we realize.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

I want people to use my story to stand up, be strong-willed and persevere.

It made me a stronger person, and more determined. I don't know if I'd still be as strong if I didn't have all that hate. I needed hate to make me more determined.

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.

The scars in my face are the source of my strength.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.