Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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.

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

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

You shouldn't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol' bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC.

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

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

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.