Lydia Lunch Quotes

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

I think that it's important to take time for yourself and to make sure to have those real moments when you're in bed at night, when you're with yourself.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

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