Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution. But I think the journey is what you have to finally be satisfied with, but not be afraid of the lessons one has to learn... it ends up as grace. And you grow; you find a way to continue.

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, 'Wow, these are things I didn't realize I was capable of.'

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

What I'm learning about myself is, no matter what the challenge is, I can overcome it.

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.