Karyn Kusama Quotes

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

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.

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

In my life, I think I have had more than two hundred significant breakthroughs that exponentially accelerated my life forward. However, each and every one of them was preceded by a breakdown that was not pretty, was often scary, and often felt like something I would not get past.

With loss comes growth.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

Not everybody's journey is easy, and it wouldn't be worthwhile if you can't see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you've been through, what kind of scars you have.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

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

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

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.

I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.