Gillian Jacobs Quotes

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

Being down makes you think who you are.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

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.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.