Joanna Baillie Quotes

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we're willing to sustain.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it's taught me just patience and letting go, and it's really changed my whole psychological outlook, I think.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

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 won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

We're stronger than we realize.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.