Cupcakke Quotes

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that's the thing with 'BoJack' - he is obviously depressed.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.

As a young boy - I was 20-21, around that age - I didn't think I was being treated right. It can affect anyone, not just me. It was about how I bounced back, how I had to think and sit down and try to move on. Not let that defeat me.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.