Selena Gomez Quotes

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Turn your scars into stars.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

You put me in here a cub, but I will come out a roaring lion.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Every single one of my girlfriends who's had a big breakup has gone and done some kind of makeover, including myself.

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.