Ginger Zee Quotes

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

I feel like I am an example. And I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Life is going to test you. But no matter how bad it may seem, we can always step up and beat it.

It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.