Phyllis Bottome Quotes

I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

All you can do is the best you can do.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

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.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

I need to be able to face things.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

You can't deny your limitations.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.

I know that some of the ideas that I have are not always going to be seen as a good idea by everybody but, that's just life. We learn at some point that you don't always get your way.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.