Blaise Pascal Quotes

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

Everyone finds their little ways of getting past bad moments and everyone has them, it's football. We get the good moments and we get stick. You can start overthinking, it's human, everyone does it.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.