Florence Nightingale Quotes

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

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

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

I can live with myself.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

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

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.