Deborah Norville Quotes

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

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

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

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.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Even though I wish I had a better childhood, I wouldn't trade it, because it made me who I am today. I still respect the people that hurt me.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

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.

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.