Rashami Desai Quotes

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

Be kind to yourself.

I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.

First of all, you need to love yourself, 'cause that's the only way you're going to get by and be O.K. as an individual. But it's important to make other people feel loved because you never know what they're going through.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

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.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.