Nigella Lawson Quotes

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's so much of us which is already in place.

You can get eight thousand great, amazing messages, and someone will send you one thing that you're maybe self-conscious about, and that's the only thing in your head for the rest of the day.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.