Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

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

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.

I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.

It's a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

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

What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.