Jessie J Quotes

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Awareness is the first step in healing.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

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

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

I said that love heals from inside.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.