Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

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

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

Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

I have been through so much.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

I'm a survivor.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.