Mariel Hemingway Quotes

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool.

You have to have a little faith in people.

…there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you're leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can't find the reasons to go on.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

Having been through a tremendous amount of emotional pain, to process it properly, to be able to have it make sense and then move it through your body, your mind, your spirit, and be done with it, you really have to address it head-on. Being able to really have the courage enough to truly face it, to truly look at it, to truly feel it.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

Suicide is a permanent question.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

I do a lot of work with mental health and wellness, which I also believe has a lot to do with your lifestyle as well - what you're eating, how you're living, what you're thinking. How you live your life can affect your mental state.

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with ... The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.