Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

What is true belongs to me!

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Football is a sad game.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.