Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

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

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

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.

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.

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.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

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.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.