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.

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

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.

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

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

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

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

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

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.

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

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

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.

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

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

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

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Hatred is settled anger.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

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

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

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

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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

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

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.

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.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.