Brenda Strong Quotes

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

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

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

I don't torture myself.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.