Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

If you want to be happy, be.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I hate exercising self-control.

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Just because I work out and eat healthy doesn't mean I don't let myself have fun.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.