Natalia Vodianova Quotes

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I'm a little bit tough because I can't afford to get my heart broken.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

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

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

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.