Quotes About Resilience

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

I hope that the vulnerability I share in my songs and my story is a vessel to people, showing them they are not alone, and that anything is possible.

In every team there are going to be moments of vulnerability.

The great comics can fall on their faces, but then they can say, 'Oh, baby, you're the greatest.' They show their heart and their vulnerability.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

Being a Chaser you are not supposed to show any vulnerability.

Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.

A Change Is Gonna Come' has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability.

Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive.