True Strength Quotes

“The act of suffering does not make you a victim—only your point of view can do that.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“It is truly the only way to love your job: keep challenging yourself to do better.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Kevin, if you were given a gift, would you stomp on it and throw it away?” “What? Of course not,” I answered, confused. Then he quietly told me, “This illness is a gift you have been given. It is not to be discarded like moldy bread. Use it and let it help you.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“But you have to see that this isn’t a setback. The problem would be to never have to face this issue: getting to be fifty and never actually growing up—because that’s what the shadow means. Accepting your weaknesses as part of you. There is a priceless benefit to learning this lesson now if you can learn it.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I can’t control the neurological stuff, but the He-Man attitude? Uh-unh.” He shakes his head. “The Superman part of you is actually inhuman, and you have to fuckin’ abandon it. That outer shell has to go. You have to feel deeper than that.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“The act of suffering does not make you a victim—only your point of view can do that. Even loss can enrich.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“In show business everyone has a kind of gypsy life, moving from place to place, looking for the next paycheck. Landing a series job and keeping it is tough for any of us, and having a series go for seven years is very rare. Together, we had enjoyed building a whole new world. During that span people married (myself included), there were divorces, and babies were born. But every series show eventually finishes, and here I was, at the end of a journey I would never forget.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I wasn’t a half-god or any part god. I was a mere mortal, with human limitations and problems, but I was determined not to behave like a victim anymore.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I needed help to do that. I rededicated myself to finding a way to God through prayer. I decided to start praying simply for faith, for humility, and for a vision of things working out alright. I longed to hear His gentle voice again, like a child yearns for his daddy’s reassurance on a dark night, like Giz seeking out my warm comfort. First, I asked Him for an umbrella.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I’ve heard that He won’t lead you to it if He can’t get you through it, and I guess I started thinking that sounded reasonable, if the Gizmoe analogy was any guide. If I was just a puppy, afraid of the rain, maybe my God was looking out for me after all.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“It’s hard,” I shrugged. “Of course it is. Anything worth fighting for is never easy.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“You cannot solve a disease of thought—a spinning mind—with more thoughts. It won’t work.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Even moldy bread can give you penicillin, but you have to have the recipe. Dr. Norie charged me with making that recipe for myself.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I am going to appear here and stay here the entire scene.” You could have heard a pin drop. “I . . . am the king of the Gods,” he pronounced in his deep baritone. “I don’t move for anyone. I sit, and people come to me.” I smiled to myself. Of course. His declaration met with an astounded silence. There was no argument for that. They relit the scene, and from then on Josh deferred to Quinn for blocking every scene he was in.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I looked around at these friends, my coworkers for five years, and I saw love and respect—and also pity. It was just as well I would be sitting for the scene. Their genuine outpouring of support overwhelmed and humbled me.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“The scenery was vibrant and green. I was pallid and unsteady. I didn’t belong here. What had been so certain before—everything—was now in question. I wondered what I had left to give to a character that I had created and, in so many ways, had equally created me.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“You are going to have to say, ‘I can’t do that. I need this from you.’ You have to talk to your shadow—to the weaker part of you—and, paradoxically, that will keep you safe. You have to do that or else this thing’ll fuckin’ kill you.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Jung said that the shadow is the source of flow. The secret of anything intimate is from the shadow.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Now we all have our shadow, the part of us we don’t want. The ego wants to leave it behind, but Jung said that the purpose of life is to integrate it—to integrate the shadow. You’ve been denying your shadow for so long; you’ve gone as far as you can without it, and now you have to deal with that. I truly believe you can turn this crisis into progress if you just get to know your shadow.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Sam had a theory that a person combats any serious illness on three fronts: physical, spiritual, and emotional.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Even as a young boy I was able to differentiate between the church and the God who founded it. I was young, opinionated, and logical. I remember asking my mom when I was around twelve years old if God was really that mad at us—because I didn’t think so. If God could be so evil, why serve Him? He gave us free will. That is a formula for both good and bad things to happen. I thought that, if anything, God was probably sad a lot of the time—sad for the destructive choices so many of His children make. I regarded our pastor as a messenger who had somehow gotten his message confused. I trusted in a loving, forgiving God.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“I almost lost two of my toes to frostbite. I had been cold and hungry, contemplating death and thinking about life. That is often the stuff of epiphanies, and there it was: I knew what I wanted to do with my life.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

“Fear is an extraordinary artist, stimulating the mind to reminisce, as if to divine where fairytale meets horror novel.”
― Kevin Sorbo, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life