Laura Prepon Quotes

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

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

Awareness is the first step in healing.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

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

Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)