Michael Keaton Quotes

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

I'm a highly intelligent, highly articulate, very empathetic, down-to-earth person. But man, my thoughts are incredibly dark. Incredibly dark.

I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

Don't believe the things you tell yourself late at night.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I obsess too much.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

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.