Sabrina Ward Harrison

Sabrina Ward Harrison (born 1975 in Montreal) is a Canadian artist, writer, photographer and motivational speaker.

Quotes

• Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
  • Quoted in Buchwald, Laura (2003). "Authors: Sabrina Ward Harrison". The Modern Library. RandomHouse.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.

• The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.
  • Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself, Introduction (2000)

• I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. Take a big walk protected in the trees. I miss the time before today.
  • Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself (2000)

• What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. "Why do I feel this way? Last week, I was on top of the world and now my feelings don't make sense." Voicing it, getting it out and letting it other people hear it, helps to dissipate it. The fears and self-criticisms begin to leak. And we begin to heal.
  • Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 268 (1999)

• May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.
  • Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 269 (1999)

External links

• "Sabrina Ward Harrison: Artist, Author, Inspiration", The Guilfordian
• Official website