Jillian Michaels Quotes

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

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

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

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

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

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.