Sonja Sohn Quotes

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.