Christina Baker Kline Quotes

I tried never to be defined by my past.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

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

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.