Carol Shields Quotes

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

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.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

I love distracting myself, just like anyone else. But I also feel a more urgent need in myself to make an effort, to be present, and to try to be something that is in favor of life. Of human life.

Life is not all a bowl of cherries. There are days when you aren't going to feel up to par. And it's healthy to see it in yourself and to ask, 'Hey, what's going on?'

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

There's a lot of insecurities and I think that's being human. There's highs and lows and it's about navigating through that.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

I try and feel good, and the only way to do it is to see myself in the mirror and to know that I'm still a single piece.

I realized that I needed to start taking better care of myself.