Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

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

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

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?

Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

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

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

I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

I was really scared to make this album and to make this song. Because I didn't want to talk about it. For me, it's even deeper than just '1-800.' 'Everybody' as a whole... I was terrified.