Bill Cunningham Quotes

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I take a breath when I have to.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.