Gregory Porter Quotes

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

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

When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

I've been neurotic in my life; I've had neurotic relationships with men. What else is new? But you really have to learn to be resilient - able to bounce back, pick yourself up, and just keep moving.

You need to mourn, you need to be upset, to give yourself time to replenish. Then you use it all as fuel to get stronger.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.