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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

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.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

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.

I hid myself in food.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

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

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

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

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.