People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will RogersI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James BaldwinI’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
Lady GagaLove is a serious mental disease.
PlatoEncouragement 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.
Maya AngelouGood psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham MaslowThe 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.
The WeekndTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William JamesWorry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.
Joyce MeyerAlways remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt VonnegutWriting makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.
Paul AusterFew are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.
Robert GreeneI briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.
Douglas AdamsHappiness is the cessation of suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhMen are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Alexander HamiltonWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich NietzscheDrink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. ChestertonJiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.
Jocko WillinkGreat grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.
David ByrneActions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel JohnsonTwo things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise PascalThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. ThompsonI can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
Alice WalkerWhere fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.
Lady GagaNo one loves the man whom he fears.
AristotleTears are the silent language of grief.
VoltaireKids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.
Brene BrownI saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Steven WrightIt’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.
Joyce MeyerWhen dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale CarnegieHatred is self-punishment.
Hosea BallouWhere the mind goes, the man follows.
Joyce MeyerWhy is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand RussellCultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody AllenHatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.
Brene BrownMeditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIf a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin DisraeliMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Albert EinsteinHolding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
BuddhaWell, 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.
Brian EnoThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George EliotWith increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBoredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand RussellLife is too short for long-term grudges.
Elon MuskI suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
Kevin GatesThe difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador DaliPeople hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace ThackerayWhenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.
Kendrick LamarIt seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘
Steven WrightIn the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘
Eckhart TolleIt’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Robert KiyosakiMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalDo not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Jesus ChristLying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert Camus