Kristin Hannah Quotes

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

You learn to love by loving.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.