Benjamin Booker Quotes

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.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being. See, I don't think we were created with some pain and misery and whatever. I think we were created by whatever this thing is, when it extended itself, and, here we are. But I pile on so many misconceptions that I end up uncomfortable in my own skin.

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I can live with myself.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

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?'

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.