Emily Saliers Quotes

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

From out of pain, beauty.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.