Samantha Morton Quotes

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I don't think I'm old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would like say is that as long as you're having fun, I think you're doing the right thing.

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.

The only person who can help Balotelli is Balotelli.

I'm just focused on me.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

We must cultivate our own garden.