Niki Lauda Quotes

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.