Nicole Richie Quotes

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

The most demeaning sin is to remain weak in the world. It not only destroys us, but also incites others to attack us with violence.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

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.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I never thought of myself as a strong person until I wrote my first book, and people started to say, 'You're a survivor. You're such a strong person.' It never ever occurred to me.

Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong.

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

I've been through so much in my life. I really don't like the feeling sorry for me, the pity.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

Throw me in deep enough, and I sink or swim. I don't care who I fight.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.