As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Mirth 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.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

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

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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

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.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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’ve had sleep paralysis.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

We 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.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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

In 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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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.

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

For 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.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.