Jane Fonda Quotes

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

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.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

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

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

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

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.