Louise Hay Quotes

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.