Exercise 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.

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

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I’m perpetually lonely.

If 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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

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.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Before 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.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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

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

I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‚Fifty Shades of Grey‘ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Life well spent is long.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

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.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Sleep is the best meditation.

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

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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