Brigham Young Quotes

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

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

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

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.

I am a self-destructive idiot.