Marie Helvin Quotes

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.

I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

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.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

It is useless to tear our hair out when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.