Shirley MacLaine Quotes

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

I think it's just really good to be honest with yourself and if I'm not feeling up for something I have no problem staying in my room in ordering some food and relaxing and managing my energy and kind of just checking in with myself throughout the day.

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 hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

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

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

My health is more important than arguing and bickering with people.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.