Lily Cole Quotes

I never got to study psychology after leaving school at 15 but I know how to rationalise things and get the best out of myself.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

When I get serious criticism - if I get serious criticism - it's about how I'm thinking and engaging in a topic. I can't think of an example of someone saying, 'You're too nice.'

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.