Monique Coleman Quotes

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

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.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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.

My dad taught me a lot of meditative techniques. I used that to my advantage.

I'm going to try to put less pressure on myself, but I know how easy it is to say that rather than to feel it, but that's how it is.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

I think that it's just about balance, keeping myself centered, and being happy and healthy.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".