The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Worry 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.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

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

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

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

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I don’t like being alone.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The 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.

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.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

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

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

It 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?‘

I’m addicted to placebos.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

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

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

My 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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.