Vandana Shiva Quotes

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I've come over so many obstacles over the years, so now when things get chucked at me, I know that I can get through to the other side with the mindset that I've got.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.