Antonia Bird Quotes

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

When I finally started to heal, that was the inspiration.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.