Top 50 Christiane Northrup Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.”

— Christiane Northrup

2. “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.”

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3. “When we dim our light to make others feel more comfortable, the whole world gets darker.”

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4. “Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “Every morning before you get out of bed, say the following: “I expand in abundance, success, and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.”

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8. “So take a look at your own life. How many of your friends or, worse yet, family members, call you only when they want something or have a problem? Notice how these same people never call you just to check in on how you’re doing.”

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9. “One more tip. Gay Hendricks came up with what he calls the “Ultimate Success Mantra” as a good place to start. Every morning before you get out of bed, say the following: “I expand in abundance, success, and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “Remaining unconscious about our innate needs takes an enormous emotional and physical toll on our bodies and spirits. Not recognizing our needs for rest, intimacy, touch, good nutrition, acknowledgment, and so on – and not knowing how to get these needs met directly – prevents us from being connected with our inner guidance.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “I don’t let someone else’s idea about what “40,” or “50,” or “60,” or any other number means inform how I see myself.”

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14. “It’s very easy to diagnose a borderline. They screw you over, rip you off, commit whatever transgression, and then they blame you for it.”

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15. “If your heart’s not in it, why are you in it?”

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16. “I pledge allegiance to myself and to my Soul for which I stand. I honor my goodness, my gifts, and my talents. I commit to remaining loyal to myself from this moment forward for all of my days.”

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17. “Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, “The original sin of being born female is not redeemable by works.”3 No.”

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18. “Dr. Mario Martinez teaches that love is toxic to a toxic person. And that there are only so many milligrams of love that a toxic person can take before they become mean or nasty.”

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19. “When you dim your light to please others, the whole world gets darker.”

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20. “Bob Fritchie suggests that you stay connected with Divine Love by having an intention to reconnect every time you go to the bathroom. Just say, “I now connect with Divine Love,” and pulse your breath.”

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21. “Your authentic, true self doesn’t lie to you, mislead you, or take you away from your power source.”

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22. “All space is sacred space when you remember that God is within you.”

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23. “Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good.”

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24. “Our bodies love us so much that they will do anything necessary to bring us to a place in which we recognize and release our unlovingness toward ourselves that’s causing us deep heartache. The message of illness and pain may be “It’s time to bring healing love into your energy field. You’ve been in emotional pain long enough. Let me turn up the volume by creating physical pain so you’ll pay attention and take care of your heart.”

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25. “You must first feel as bad as you’re feeling and move your emotions of anger and hurt out of your body. You do this by feeling them fully and expressing them in a safe way.”

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26. “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?”

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27. “Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: “Yes!” and “Not now” and “No, because I love you too much.”

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28. “All of us are given a certain amount of crap to compost. Get it out of you so that you can mix it into rich soil and create something new. Learn from it, write a poem expressing it, and dance or cry it out of you to heal yourself. Create something better from the crap so that it doesn’t define your life or make you sick. And.”

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29. “To heal our past, we must first become aware of how Darkness works. Shining a light on it is the first step. And then forgiving ourselves and being unconditionally loving – and also changing our behavior, if necessary – is the next step to clean up the legacy for good.”

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30. “Put on the music and dance now. Your unrestricted, luscious, rich joy serves not only you but the planet. So move those lower chakras, open your heart, and let your life force express itself like the most succulent, juicy fruit, the most redolent and colorful flower, or the loudest and most raucous song. After that, make a commitment to getting rid of all the old emotional toxins that have become stuck inside you so you can live freely and agelessly.”

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31. “Once you face down your fears of saying no, you’ll be much better able to stick to situations that don’t drain you.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Moderators are able to enjoy a small bowl of ice cream and leave it at that. Abstainers find that one bowl of ice cream inevitably leads to finishing off the carton, and one cookie is never enough. Abstainers tend to do best when they abstain from all sugar for five or six days per week, leaving a day or two for eating whatever they want. Are you a moderator or an abstainer?”

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34. “Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can defend yourself against this. You can’t. Just walk away. Don’t try to make your case. At the end of the day, you will be judged by your behavior – not your words. Walking away is very powerful.”

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35. “Four o’clock is like the PMS stage of the daily cycle; you’re meant to go for a walk, take a nap, or get in touch with your feelings and inner wisdom, not reach for sugar.”

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36. “If your mate is not overall 51 percent valuable, you cannot stay with them and remain healthy. Being in a toxic relationship may be a sign of unconditional love, but it’s also a sign that you love them more than yourself. That is a sign of mental illness.”

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37. “If I’m passionate about something, I always know that I’m meant to do it. Excitement about something always means that you’re aligned with who you really are!”

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38. “Holding our breath or breathing shallowly always stops us from feeling. And to heal anything, we have to feel it. So breathe mindfully whenever possible. I have the word breathe posted in strategic places throughout my home and office.”

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39. “We become programmed with a set of upper limits for what we believe we deserve in life. That includes how healthy, how prosperous, and how well loved we can expect to be. These beliefs operate in our subconscious, under the radar of our everyday consciousness. But they unerringly attract to us experiences that reinforce what we already believe.”

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40. “We don’t even know that we’re dealing with one of these masters of Darkness until we become physically ill, lose our friends, our jobs, our incomes, our fertile years, and eventually even our self-esteem and dignity.”

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41. “I believe that we make soul contracts with ourselves and other souls before incarnating into our human bodies.”

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42. “Spirit or Source is our true Beloved, who will always accept, forgive, and love us.”

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43. “Whenever you do something that you consider a mistake – like spilling something, tripping, forgetting an appointment, feeling sad, getting angry, or feeling stuck – notice it and congratulate yourself. This is so counterintuitive that it will instantly shift your energy.”

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44. “The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to this: To live an easy life, you have to align with the Divine part of yourself. In fact, you have to let it lead your life. This is not the same as waiting for some kind of Divine force outside of you to come swooping in to rescue you from your life. That’s not how it works. You have to make an effort to make changes. But when you align your personal will with Divine will, then you can move mountains. Much.”

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45. “Dispenza says, wisdom is simply memory with the emotional charge removed.”

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46. “We must also learn to respect our shadow – that part of us we try to hide so others won’t know how we “really” are. This includes our negativity, sorrow, jealousy, anger, and grief.”

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47. “Unsuspecting empaths often open their hearts, their bank accounts, and their bodies in order to help these vampires heal their so-called wounds, which actually don’t exist. This is not because the empath is a fool. It results, instead, from the perfect storm of the empath’s desire to be a healing force in the world, combined with the predatory skills of the vampire – and, very often, the unhealed wounds of the empath, who often doesn’t feel worthy of the best life has to offer.”

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48. “Here’s the deal. When another individual is completely disconnected from their well-being and their joy, this has absolutely nothing to do with you on any level. You didn’t attract this. You are not responsible for it. The only thing you are responsible for is your own energy field. And when you learn how to pay attention to that – and only that – you’re free.”

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49. “If someone is snarky or critical, I no longer try to “buff them up,” send love, or try to explain my position. If the comment is nasty or a put-down, I just delete it. If it happens again, I simply press “ban user.”

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50. “The reason 12-step programs can be so helpful is that, very often, empaths become addicted to their vampire partners.”

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