Paulo Coelho Quotes

Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I needed a break... from myself.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

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