Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.

Part of the game is moving on. And you do.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.