Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I 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.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

I love movement. I love moshing.

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

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

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

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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 wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

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.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.