Karyn Kusama Quotes

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

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

Beauty that arose out of pain.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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!

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

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

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

What was once your pain, will be your home.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

We all have our baggage, and I think the trick is not resisting it but accepting it, understanding that the worst experience has a valuable gift wrapped inside if you're willing to receive it.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

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