Kelly Cutrone Quotes

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

The struggle I went through has value.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.