Alexander Lowen Quotes

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

I love myself and I am a good person.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.