Amanda Warren Quotes

I'm just looking to get through the day.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

I'm not really seeing pressure as a negative.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

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.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.