Flume Quotes

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

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.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I don't have life rage anymore.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.