There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I can handle pain.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

People want to feel hopeful.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Well, 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.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

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.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.