Christiane Quotes & Sayings

We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. - ABRAHAM — Christiane Northrup

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self? — Christiane Northrup

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. — Christiane Northrup

What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally? — Christiane Northrup

Consider the following: More than 40 percent of women in the United States have likely been the victim of violence, including childhood sexual abuse (almost 18 percent), physical assault (more than 19 percent), rape (more than 20 percent), and intimate partner violence (almost 35 percent).4 Some 6 percent of all pregnant women experienced violence during their pregnancies as well.5 Despite the widespread violence against women, less than 10 percent of primary care physicians normally screen for domestic violence during routine office visits.6 Yet if the violence is not addressed, it — Christiane Northrup

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. — Christiane Amanpour

No matter what you're feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you're stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It's a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable. — Christiane Northrup

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk. — Christiane Northrup

Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed how often women apologize? — Christiane Northrup

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. — Christiane Amanpour

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy. — Christiane Northrup

Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals. — Christiane Northrup

with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause. — Christiane Northrup

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. — Christiane Amanpour

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal. — Christiane Amanpour

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first
not through intellectual understanding. — Christiane Northrup

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies. — Christiane Northrup

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. — Christiane Northrup

courage necessary to make radical and life-giving changes in your mind and body that will allow you to flourish on all levels. — Christiane Northrup

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it. — Christiane Northrup

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. — Christiane Northrup

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short! — Christiane Northrup

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs. — Christiane Collange

I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment - and health. Though we've too often been talked out of our desires as children, — Christiane Northrup

When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your health is like in that moment. — Christiane Northrup

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent. — Christiane Amanpour

Nothing happens randomly. — Christiane Northrup

In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. — Christiane Amanpour

Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night — Christiane Northrup

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference. — Christiane Amanpour

I've spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body - and figuring out how to fix it. I'm dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish. — Christiane Northrup

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. — Christiane Amanpour

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science. — Christiane Northrup

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen. — Christiane Amanpour

The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals. — Christiane Northrup

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. — Christiane Amanpour

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers. — Christiane Northrup

I believe that we make soul contracts with ourselves and other souls before incarnating into our human bodies. — Christiane Northrup

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. — Christiane Amanpour

If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high. — Christiane Northrup

become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be. — Christiane Northrup

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak. — Christiane Amanpour

In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. — Christiane Northrup

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Throwing the leg of lamb out the window may have been Aunt Carol's outward expression of the process going on within her soul: the reclaiming of herself. Perhaps it was her way of saying how tired she was of waiting on her family, of signaling to them that she was past the cook/chauffeur/dishwasher stage of life. For many women, if not most, part of this reclamation process includes getting in touch with anger and, perhaps, blowing up at loved ones for the first time. — Christiane Northrup

I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

And I really believe good journalism is good business. — Christiane Amanpour

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be. — Christiane Amanpour

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. — Christiane Amanpour

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature. — Christiane Northrup

Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value. — Christiane Northrup

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. — Christiane Amanpour

Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good — Christiane Northrup

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior. — Christiane Northrup

Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Your health is not outside of you. — Christiane Northrup

Another example of how connected we all are, and are meant to be, is the story of the "elephant whisperer," the late Lawrence Anthony. He was a conservationist who saved the lives of countless elephants — Christiane Northrup

The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It's very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives. — Christiane Northrup

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? — Christiane Amanpour

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by. — Christiane Amanpour

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. — Christiane Amanpour

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it. — Christiane Northrup

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here. — Christiane Northrup

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. — Christiane Amanpour

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. — Christiane Amanpour

Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth. — Christiane Amanpour

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing. — Christiane Northrup

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what's not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities. — Christiane Northrup

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next. — Christiane Amanpour

My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on. — Christiane Northrup

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true. — Christiane Amanpour

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be. — Christiane Northrup

becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself. — Christiane Northrup

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. — Christiane Amanpour

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle. — Christiane Northrup

Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives. — Christiane Northrup

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. — Christiane Amanpour

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. — Christiane Amanpour

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. — Christiane Amanpour

We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe.

If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy. — Christiane Northrup

In Celtic cultures, the young maiden was seen as the flower; the mother, the fruit; the elder woman, the seed. The seed is the part that contains the knowledge and potential of all the other parts within it. — Christiane Northrup

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox. — Christiane Northrup

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. — Christiane Amanpour

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth — Christiane Northrup

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message. — Christiane Northrup

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. — Christiane Amanpour

Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: "Yes!" and "Not now" and "No, because I love you too much. — Christiane Northrup

longitudinal study of people over age 75, conducted over a period of 21 years by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at whether activities from playing cards to swimming to doing housework affected cognitive ability. Almost none of the physical activities had any effect on dementia rates except for one: partner dancing, which lowered the risk by 76 percent. No other activity came anywhere near being as effective at protecting people from cognitive decline!3 — Christiane Northrup