Brenda Lee Quotes

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

When I have these negative thoughts and feelings, I like to dig into them because I like to get under them and see what's in there.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

I don't even like to cry in private.