Roma Downey Quotes

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

This isn't the same Johnny Gargano that is going to overreact to things and let his emotions get the best of him. In 2019, I'm a little calmer and more collected.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

I've got to watch myself these days. It's too exciting watching anyone else.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I have very human responses to things, so I had to learn to just be still.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.