Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

You put me in here a cub, but I will come out a roaring lion.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

With loss comes growth.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

We are created by being destroyed.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

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.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.