Debbie Ford Quotes

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.