Louise Hay Quotes

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

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 am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

The struggle I went through has value.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.