Shonda Rhimes Quotes

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience the transformation that comes with pain and loss and sorrow.

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'

I just feel like my life changed in so many ways, and I'm just taking it all in.

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

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

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.

The day you make a decision about your life is the day your world will change.

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

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 melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

There were things that had been weighing heavy on me for quite some time. And I went into this hole, trying to work through some of these things so that I could be a better me and be a better mom to Julez and be a better wife and a better friend and a better sister.