Mireille Guiliano Quotes

“Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.”

“Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.”

“The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.”

“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”

“Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.”

“We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.”

“Standing on the top of this Monte d'Ora watching the sun come radiantly alive, Turi Guiliano was filled with youthful glee that he had escaped his enemies. He would never obey another human being again. He would choose who should live and who should die, and there was no doubt in his mind that all he would do would be for the glory and freedom of Sicily, for good and not for evil. That he would only strike for the cause of justice, to help the poor. that he would win every battle, that he would win the love of the oppressed.He was twenty years old.”

“You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.”

“Give us being and feeling over having any day.”

“I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”