George Chakiris Quotes

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I can live with myself.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.