Ali Smith Quotes

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

Love your self's self where it lives.