Alice Temperley Quotes

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

As crazy as it may sound, it's like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it's just me and my candy.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Sometimes I just need to be out in nature. It's amazing how much I need time on my own.

I live in Nottingham. I love just being at home. I can shut my front door, and it's like a little haven to me rather than thinking about going to certain places to... look good.

A calming place, where you can go to escape it all and just focus on your body, is so wonderful to have.

I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.

There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.

With how much stress I have every day in the gym, you need a little time to get out and just be whoever you want to be.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.