Carly Simon Quotes

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

When I'm happy and in a good mood, I just search for other things that maybe connect to me on another level. I talk to my friends and see how they're feeling - see what's going on in their lives.

Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems - especially as we've got older. But I don't think a lot of people have that.

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

Friends are the best therapy.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.

Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.