Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.

I don't get along much with myself.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

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.