Gerard Way Quotes

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

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

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.