Julia Child Quotes

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.

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.

Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.

I'm a real advocate for 'Live your best life.' The cha-cha is not my best life.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

I really have no interest in myself.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.