Samaire Armstrong Quotes

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not.

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

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

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.