C. S. Lewis Quotes

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Turn your scars into stars.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.

If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

It's been a reality check that my muscles are still really affected by my spinal cord injury, but it's also been super empowering to see how much I'm capable of.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.