Aisha Tyler Quotes

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

Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.