J. K. Rowling Quotes

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I've always been able to laugh at myself.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

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

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

I am who I am and, you know, I've done the best I can with what I've been given.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.