Esther Hicks Quotes

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

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.

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

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

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.\

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.