Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Laughter 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.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

People want to feel hopeful.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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.

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.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Working out anchors my day.

Life well spent is long.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

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.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

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

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

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.