Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

In 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.‘

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

We’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.

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

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I 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.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

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

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

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.

It is important to remember yourself.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

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.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

You 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.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

All of our problems start in our minds.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

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

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.