Adwoa Aboah Quotes

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be. So it's good to have something else to focus on that reminds you that it's not always about you.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.