Lena Headey Quotes

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

I'm always strong. I'm tough.

People say all kinds of hurtful things, but I've learned to tune it out the best I can.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

My natural reaction is to smile through things.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.