Esperanza Spalding Quotes

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

If you're taking care of yourself, then what can somebody else tell you?

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

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

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

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 was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

It's never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.

Listen, you can never take the bedazzle away from me.