Andrew Weil Quotes

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.

Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to reach ever closer to our full potential, and which also enables us to be resilient in the face of adversity.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

Everyone reacts to things differently but just identifying in your own life, what works, seeing what doesn't, is as important for to you to talk about your own mental health.

I'm aware that I am flawed. I'm aware that I have issues. I'm aware that I need to be able to be healthy, not just physically but mentally.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

My parents never put a lot of pressure on us to be any kind of way.... I have my funny moments where I look at myself and think, Oh, this is a disaster. But you have to give yourself a reality check and go, All right, if I feel this way, I'm going to do something about it that's healthy. I can't look at somebody who is 6 feet tall and 120 pounds and say, I'm going to get that body. That's just never going to happen. You have to work with what you've got.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.