Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

Alana Stewart
Alana Stewart

I've elected to age gracefully.