Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

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.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

I said that love heals from inside.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments, be careful how you speak to yourself; be careful how you think of yourself; be careful how you conduct yourself; be careful how you develop yourself.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.