Anita Diament Quotes

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

If we show people that fear isn't actually the place that we have to surrender to, fear isn't actually the thing that we have to answer to, but instead, it's going in and loving people.

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.