James Carville Quotes

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

You can't run away from yourself

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's so much of us which is already in place.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.