Shreyas Iyer Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.