Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Quotes

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person.

I used to think that if someone asked for help, they were weak. But the toughest thing I ever did was reach out and ask for help. And that was when I started to heal.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

moving on is a gift you give yourself.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.