Mark Berridge > Quotes

“When it counts, you can be braver than you ever imagined.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Belief is the heartbeat of your journey. It is your guiding angel. Protect and encourage your belief like a good friend, as you use every means possible to reinforce and extend it.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Love connects us with our identity, our embers of normality. It encourages us, replenishes energy and enhances our effort. It gives us focus. It forgives us our failures and picks us up for another try.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Your character is forged by the resolve to try.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Our lives are constantly changing. Every day we deal with disruptions; it is just the extent of the disruption that varies. There are infinite little self-adjustments that we can make, such as shifting our mood or energy, that help us deal with these disruptions. Just like the suspension of a car helps the car weather bumps in the road.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Visualising somersaulting provides a nice way to think of resilience. It is our ability to sustain forward momentum even when life puts us in a spin. By learning how to engage the power of the tumbling motion, we can steer ourselves even if our turns are not always in perfect control.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Positive feedback reinvigorates effort
and belief.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Possibility and uncertainty are intertwined. By embracing uncertainty, you let possibility be infinite. By keeping an open mind, and pushing yourself outside your comfort zone by being willing to try and fail, you create possibilities that are unforeseen.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Our lives are constantly changing. Every day we deal with disruptions; it is just the extent of the disruption that varies. There are
infinite little self-adjustments that we can make, such as shifting our mood or energy, that help us deal with these disruptions. Just like the suspension of a car helps the car weather bumps in the road.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments

“Embracing uncertainty is powerful in two ways:
Firstly, it allows you to find acceptance.
Secondly, embracing uncertainty broadens the horizon of possibility. Think about it in reverse: if we avoid uncertainty, we constrain the infinite nature of possibility.”
― Mark Berridge, A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments