Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

I feel like I've put my demons behind me.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.