Jaleel White Quotes

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

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I'm a big advocate of meditation.

I don't really have that much angst to get rid of.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, one night at a time. I'm not usually up during the day.

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

If I feel down, I can do what I've always done - go see a friend, walk the dog, have a cup of tea.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

I have stopped thinking too much. It all started against West Indies. I told myself that I want to enjoy my life. I don't want selection issues to rule my happiness.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.

You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.

The reward for attention is always healing.

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.