Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

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

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

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.

Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

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

I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

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.

Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!