Karen Salmansohn Quotes

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

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

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

I need to be able to face things.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I thank every bully I ever had because that's the only reason I'm here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me - again, if I had any success whatsoever, it's because these people made fun of me.

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

We need to empower ourselves and believe in ourselves, and not allow the world to take that away from us. No matter how dark we may think our world is, it's been much darker in the past, and we will make it through this.