Byron Katie Quotes

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

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

I've had to find my sanity.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

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.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

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

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Recovery is really important.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.