Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.