I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

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?

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.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

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

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

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

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

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

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

It is important to remember yourself.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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?

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.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

I don’t like being alone.

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.

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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.

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

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.