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

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

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

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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

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.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… 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.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

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.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

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

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

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

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.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.