Don Baylor Quotes

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

I think I have a bright future. I know I have a problem which is going to be with me for the rest of my life, but it's for me to manage it.

My purpose is to help people be more comfortable with their pain and realize that they have power and a lot to give regardless of whether their life seems normal or not.

You have to learn to get through it yourself, because there are going to be times in your life when there's going to be no one else around but you.

I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.