Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I like to let things breathe.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

It is important to remember yourself.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Sleep is the best meditation.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I’m addicted to placebos.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.