Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

Look at my life. I almost died. I almost died several times. My shoulders were down, man. But I kicked out. I kicked out again. Someone upstairs obviously likes me. So maybe I should, too.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

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.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.