KT Tunstall Quotes

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.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

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.

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.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.

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

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

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

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

I believe I overcame a lot.

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

Not everybody's journey is easy, and it wouldn't be worthwhile if you can't see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you've been through, what kind of scars you have.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you're a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you're stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.