Top 25 Mariel Hemingway Quotes

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Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to

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.
Mariel Hemingway
I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
I’m not that old, and I haven’t lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
Mariel Hemingway
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don’t know it’s happening.
Mariel Hemingway
I don’t have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It’s my life experience.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn’t know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
My problems aren’t so different from anybody else.
Mariel Hemingway
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
Mariel Hemingway
I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.
Mariel Hemingway
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway
I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
Mariel Hemingway
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.
Mariel Hemingway
We’re taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can’t.
Mariel Hemingway