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.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

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

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.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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

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.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

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.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

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

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

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.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

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

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

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I like to let things breathe.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

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

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

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.