If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those people. … So, if you can, realize that the things that people say about you — they don't really matter — it's who you are. And the older you get, the more you'll understand that — because it gets better. And people get nicer too.


Stephen Colbert - It Gets Better (13 July 2011)

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If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those...

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those...

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those...

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those...