No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John SteinbeckBreathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
Thich Nhat HanhA deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Brene BrownWhat can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George OrwellYou know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
EminemWhen the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.
Joel OsteenOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMost men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
DiogenesYou cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.
Alice WalkerMany people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart TolleMy biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Ayrton SennaI was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
Lady GagaDrunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand RussellWhy regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.
Robert GreeneIf I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee WilliamsI was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
Virginia WoolfThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleI sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. RowlingFor an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.
Terry PratchettThe greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise PascalI asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt VonnegutI sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph AddisonI never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
Joe BidenMy 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.
RihannaI’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.
Kanye WestI feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim CarreyYou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve JobsYou 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.
Taylor SwiftI am in my own head most of the time.
Vivienne WestwoodI love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.
Virat KohliTo avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert HubbardNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsReserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HypatiaLife is too short for long-term grudges.
Elon MuskI soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne FrankI’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
Lana Del ReyEveryone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Carl JungThe story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
Karl LagerfeldMy problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.
Jackie RobinsonThe 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.
Wayne DyerWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt VonnegutI get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.
The WeekndI used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.
Joyce MeyerWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George WashingtonCycling 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.
David ByrneI let the American people down.
Richard M. NixonGo on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Dylan ThomasPeople like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.
Conor McGregorJoining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.
Lando NorrisBefore you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
ChanakyaIt is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl JungWe have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
Angelina JolieNothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Dolly PartonWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George EliotIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
Henry AdamsAt fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George OrwellWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche