The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

You know, personal experience…you’ve got to learn to be tough, you’ve got to learn to survive.

[I learned] how to love myself first. And not just in a relationship, just my everyday life,” she admits. “I give myself so much, I let people pull at me in every direction, and I want everybody to be happy. Eventually I would be in my bathroom sobbing right before I go onstage. And then I’d just put myself onstage and I’d want to be there for those people. I never took a moment to just go, go away and be myself and figure it out. I kept pushing myself and I think the biggest thing I learned is, it’s okay. I’m going to stop when I need to stop, I’m going to feel when I need to feel, and I don’t care what comes with that or what people want to say. It’s normal. I’m suppose to keep going and that’s all I want to do.

I learnt a lot l learned how encouragement and strong a woman can be to lead people despite of men didn't like it

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.

Learning to defend myself, to be willing to take the risk of being a bad girl, was a process with a steep learning curve. But like with so many other things, I learned how to stand up even when other people were certain I should be content to sit down. Being good at being bad has been scary, fun, rewarding, and ultimately probably the only path that I was ever meant to walk.

The most important trick to being happy is to realize happiness is a skill you develop and a choice you make.

It was a was a hard road to come back from, but it definitely taught me perseverance and grit, but also it taught me empathy, which I think I would not have learned otherwise.

Here was where she had learned this skill all those years ago, where she had learned how good it felt to run away.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.