Norman Maclean Quotes

What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may be able to carry on for a while, but sooner or later we end up feeling depleted, discouraged, or weak. We cannot keep on giving when we are running on an empty tank. We need to be solid.

I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we're in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it's not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it's about modeling and celebrating the alternative.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.