Marie Osmond Quotes

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

Not a day goes past when I don't think how grateful I am I survived, that I recovered and that I feel like a young woman again.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.