Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

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

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

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.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

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

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

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

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

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

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.