Karen Salmansohn Quotes & Sayings

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness. — Karen Salmansohn

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down. — Karen Salmansohn

Pour yourself a cockytale - a delicious blend of persuasive happy facts and/or marvelous memories - prepared just for you. — Karen Salmansohn

Ban the words "always" and never from your vocabulary — Karen Salmansohn

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. — Karen Salmansohn

A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive. — Karen Salmansohn

Why feel blue when there's sooooo many other colors you can feel. — Karen Salmansohn

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression. — Karen Salmansohn

If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods. — Karen Salmansohn

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable. — Karen Salmansohn

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit. — Karen Salmansohn

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart. — Karen Salmansohn

With enough coffee anything is possible — Karen Salmansohn

I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts. — Karen Salmansohn

Let go of your worries. Hold on to this moment. — Karen Salmansohn

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed. — Karen Salmansohn

God is even in a single parent household. — Karen Salmansohn

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30. — Karen Salmansohn

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery. — Karen Salmansohn

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again! — Karen Salmansohn

I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth. — Karen Salmansohn

The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands. — Karen Salmansohn

Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face. — Karen Salmansohn

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. — Karen Salmansohn

Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest. — Karen Salmansohn

It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick something a little more challenging - like an astrophysicist. — Karen Salmansohn

When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts. — Karen Salmansohn

Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances. — Karen Salmansohn

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much. — Karen Salmansohn

True love is not a wish list but a "wish feeling." And the number one feeling - even before the feeling of love - is the feeling of safety. Without feeling safe, you will never feel true love. You must have trust in your partner's character and prioritize finding a partner who is honest, communicative, and empathic - someone who values growing - so you can feel safe to vulnerably be your truest core self with him - and then together the two of you can support one another to grow into your best possible selves. — Karen Salmansohn

Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you. — Karen Salmansohn

Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight. — Karen Salmansohn

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, "What was I thinking," breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning? — Karen Salmansohn

I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now. — Karen Salmansohn

Fear is nature's caffeine — Karen Salmansohn

I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want. — Karen Salmansohn

If someone has harmed you, don't wish them ill
wish for them to gain clarity! Hope that they will soon be able to fully see the pain they have caused you, as well as new ways of being and doing. — Karen Salmansohn

Seek out the good in the bad,
the happy in your sad,
the gain in your pain,
what make you grateful, not hateful. — Karen Salmansohn

Things won't get better unless you think better — Karen Salmansohn

Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!' — Karen Salmansohn

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems. — Karen Salmansohn

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque. — Karen Salmansohn

Feeling means your dealing means your healing — Karen Salmansohn

At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person. — Karen Salmansohn

Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them! — Karen Salmansohn

I don't do hurry I don't do worry. — Karen Salmansohn

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place. — Karen Salmansohn

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life. — Karen Salmansohn

Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about. — Karen Salmansohn

Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come. — Karen Salmansohn

You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed. — Karen Salmansohn

A lot of the pain you are dealing with right now is really just your thoughts. — Karen Salmansohn

I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself. — Karen Salmansohn

I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods ... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy ... already made ... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce. — Karen Salmansohn

I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life. — Karen Salmansohn

I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself. — Karen Salmansohn

Do not worry, my sweet one. Just as night is followed by day, so too your dark times will be followed by brighter days ahead. — Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient. — Karen Salmansohn

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. — Karen Salmansohn

I'm not angry anymore. I'm just really disappointed about who you turned out to be. — Karen Salmansohn

You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds. — Karen Salmansohn

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful. — Karen Salmansohn

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart. — Karen Salmansohn

Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship! — Karen Salmansohn

Anger is a boomerang. — Karen Salmansohn

Don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now. — Karen Salmansohn

Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day. — Karen Salmansohn

Breaking up is hard to do ... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about. — Karen Salmansohn

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences. — Karen Salmansohn

Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens. — Karen Salmansohn

Be a positive evidence collector — Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes you're taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed — Karen Salmansohn

Give yourself a break to avoid a breakdown. — Karen Salmansohn

Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie. — Karen Salmansohn

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective. — Karen Salmansohn

Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal. — Karen Salmansohn

Do you ever feel like you're not even friends with sme of your friends? — Karen Salmansohn

I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain. — Karen Salmansohn

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship! — Karen Salmansohn

The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights. — Karen Salmansohn

When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes. — Karen Salmansohn

Thoughts are like a steering wheel — Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on. — Karen Salmansohn

You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works. — Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. — Karen Salmansohn

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't — Karen Salmansohn

A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad ... who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with. — Karen Salmansohn

I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones. — Karen Salmansohn

The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract. — Karen Salmansohn

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future. — Karen Salmansohn

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again! — Karen Salmansohn

I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self. — Karen Salmansohn

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward. — Karen Salmansohn

When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting. — Karen Salmansohn

During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes. — Karen Salmansohn

It's time to embrace what is ... and let go of what you wanted to happen — Karen Salmansohn

Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now. — Karen Salmansohn

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again. — Karen Salmansohn

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave — Karen Salmansohn

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you. — Karen Salmansohn