Selena Gomez Quotes

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

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

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

I don't want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I've got a fantastic life. I'm not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but the bullies made me stronger.

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

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

Injuries make you stronger.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

That's the good part of an injury, it strengthens you in many ways.

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

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

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.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.