Phil Donahue Quotes

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

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

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

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

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for 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.

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

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.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.