Simone Weil Quotes

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

What batters you becomes your strength.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

Listen, trials and difficult times can help you become better and move forward, or they can cause you to step backward. It's how you handle those situations that shows who you can become.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

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.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.