Lara Stone Quotes

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Contrary to reports that I took the loss badly, I want to say that I went home last night and slept like a baby—every two hours I woke up and cried.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

I don't think I get that upset over things.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...