Annie Proulx Quotes

I needed to get to know myself, discover where my limits were, not constantly push myself too much.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Understanding what you're OK with and what you're not OK with is so important to learn.

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

There is just something that people taught me in general for self-care, would just be to spend some time alone and to protect yourself. Learning to say no is something that helps in that, and what you're comfortable with and what you're not comfortable with, and finding the line. That's it. Otherwise it's just going to be really hard.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

Realize that you can't make everyone happy.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

I started writing to reassure myself that I was still all here.