Lauren Graham Quotes

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

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

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

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

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.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.