I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.
Joyce MeyerWhen you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Eckhart TolleI calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
Muhammad AliIf I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
Angelina JolieI can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark TwainKeeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen HawkingSometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.
Angelina JoliePeople are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
EpictetusI had slumps that lasted into the winter.
Bob UeckerAll of our problems start in our minds.
Joyce MeyerI listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Amy WinehouseTotal relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Thich Nhat HanhA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John SteinbeckDespair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie ChaplinPeople tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
Eckhart TolleI’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert HooverIt doesn’t take much to make me angry.
Christopher HitchensOne good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.
Denzel WashingtonThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. ThompsonI’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.
J. ColeIf you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.
Haruki MurakamiThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William JamesThere’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.
Wayne DyerNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’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 PratchettI’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady GagaI 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.
Amy WinehouseIf 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 TolleWhen we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Brene BrownI 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 NorrisOne of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaIn the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Christopher HitchensWe are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
Anthony HopkinsWe don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William JamesHaving a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
Charles BukowskiNo 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.
Terry PratchettWith my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham MaslowNo, I’m not anguished and tormented.
George H. W. BushHe was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody AllenIf you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Hunter S. ThompsonI don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.
Bob MarleyMusic is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
EminemThere is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King SolomonI don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie EilishOur fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale CarnegieThe trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon BonaparteYou can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham MaslowPeople use irony as a defense mechanism.
David ByrneExercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Michelle ObamaIt is important to remember yourself.
Alice WalkerI don’t digest things with my mind.
Marilyn MonroeHappiness is the cessation of suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhFor me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.
Angelina JolieWhen I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
J. K. RowlingI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William JamesChefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Gordon RamsayIf you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.
Joyce Meyer