For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.
Greta ThunbergLove is a serious mental disease.
PlatoIf you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale CarnegieOur fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale CarnegieOur economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne WestwoodTo truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie ChaplinI’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher HitchensThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. ThompsonCycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
David ByrneI used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.
Joyce MeyerThe secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard ShawA great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.
Wayne DyerIf you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt VonnegutSince I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Amy WinehouseIf I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.
Ray BradburyI’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Ronald ReaganI’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.
Terry PratchettFear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieShow me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl JungIt is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.
Greta ThunbergIt is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.
Lady GagaMy mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey‚Fame‘ exhausts me.
Alice WalkerThe mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. ThompsonThere aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
Matthew McConaugheyThe 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.
Ray BradburyMany people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.
Greta ThunbergIf the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart TolleMemories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart TolleLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt VonnegutIt’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. TrumanIf it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.
Winston ChurchillFantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry PratchettBoredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart TolleAbsolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillGoing to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
The WeekndSolving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Greta ThunbergI think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
Paul AusterI think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.
Lando NorrisHatred is self-punishment.
Hosea BallouIf a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin PowellBefore you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.
David GogginsYou have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
Jordan PetersonWorry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten BoomHappiness is the cessation of suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhMirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph AddisonLaughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Kevin HartThere are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘
Steven WrightDespair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie ChaplinFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliOne of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaThere is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. RooseveltI try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Keanu ReevesPeople tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.
Greta ThunbergNeurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung