Jens Lekman Quotes

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.

Change your thinking, and you will change your life.

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need guidance on how to think negatively. But we do need guidance on how to think positively. People that write books on how to do that are multimillionaires.

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.

I think writing should be about change.

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.