Shirley MacLaine Quotes

I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

We all have this [emotional] stuff we carry in an invisible suitcase. You can't keep it all, because if you keep it all, you can't move forward. But you can't let it all go, because if you let it all go, you're not yourself. The great balancing act of life is, What do I keep in here?

You can't run away from yourself

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

Things you believe are baggage in your life.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.