Judith Viorst Quotes

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Past tears are present strength.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.