Troian Bellisario Quotes

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on- what happens between teh beginning and end of the journey is your life.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.