Jon Stewart Quotes

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

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

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I'm really, really emotional.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.