Louise Hay Quotes

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.