Hatred is settled anger.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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’ve had sleep paralysis.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Love is only one of many passions.

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.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

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.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

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.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

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

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

All you need is love.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?