Julia Sweeney Quotes

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

I've learned that I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was.

I've learned about myself that I'm much stronger than I ever had any idea about myself.

Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while there are always going to be roadblocks along the way, you're going to be just fine, as long as you learn from each setback.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.