Hatred is inveterate anger.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Fear is real, but so is love.

It is important to remember yourself.

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

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

To live is to think.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

People love conspiracy theories.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

If 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.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.