Jim Valvano Quotes

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

Men need to laugh more.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

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 spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.