Patti Davis Quotes

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

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

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Time heals all wounds.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.