Brianna Keilar Quotes

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

Everyone has ups and downs. You can't always get exciting roles.

Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I mean, if you need a minute to yourself, you aren't going to get it, but you just have to realize it's what you signed up for, because those difficult moments are what make for a much better show.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.